New Cong. team gears up for do-or-die battle in UP polls

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow-Congress’s newly-elected office-bearers of Uttar Pradesh unit on Sunday assumed charge in the presence of party’s chief ministerial face Shiela Dikshit, hoping to swing fortune its way in the 2017 Assembly elections, being billed as a ‘do-or-die’ battle for the party.

It was flowers all the way from the city airport to the Congress headquarters on Mall Road as the cavalcade of new state PCC chief Raj Babbar and Dikshit meandered through 16 km-long route dotted with welcome arches and chock-a-block with enthusiastic party workers showering rose petals and shouting slogans.

“We will fan out to the interiors of the state and tell the voters that Congress can give a viable alterative to the state,” Dikshit told reporters. “The manner in which UP should have developed that has not taken place in the last 27 years,” she said, flanked by Babbar and other newly-appointed party functionaries.