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Congress plans `programme of action'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI APRIL 18. It promises to be a long hot summer for Congress workers. The AICC has chalked out an intensive three-phase programme of action for the next two months and more will follow.

The two-month programme envisages dharnas and rallies at the block and district levels in the non-Congress States highlighting the "failures" of the State and the Central Government.

In the Congress-ruled States, the party plans to target the Central Government by highlighting its "failures".

The move is a follow-up to the programme announced by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, at the national convention of block presidents, and is aimed at reinforcing the convention message by focussing on the problems of the poor.

The first phase of the programme is 45-day long and comprises worker conventions at the block and district levels throughout the country from May 1.

The worker conventions will deliberate on national and local issues and subjects of interest to the area.

The AICC has directed the present and former MPs, MLAs and party functionaries to attend the conventions.

These will be followed by month-long training camps at the district level from June 16.

The AICC has also asked the State units to organise panchayati raj sammelans, and kranti yatras from August 9.

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