Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 25 (ANI): Deputy Leader of Congress in Karnataka Assembly UT Khader urged the state government to consider allowing students to take exams wearing hijabs of the same colour as their uniform.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 30 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will participate in the meeting of the newly-formed screening committee in Lucknow in order to fix the strategy of the Congress party and finalise the names of the candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in 2022.

Lucknow Sep 28 PTI Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday envisaged setting up war rooms right up to district level aimed at receiving feedback from the ground and taking prompt decisions on emergent issues as part of the 2022 UP assembly polls strategy Priyanka Gandhi mooted the idea while deliberating upon various strategies to be adopted by the party in preparation for the upcoming state assembly polls during a meeting with the partys state unit leaders The other issues that she discussed included the route of the partys Pratigya Yatra setting up training camps for booth management and party units at the village level party leaders said At the meeting with party leaders at her residence here Priyanka Ji also discussed the route for the partys proposed Pratigya Yatra Training camps setting up of war rooms and partys Gram Sabha units were also deliberated upon UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu told reporters She also deliberated upon various local and national issues on which the assembly elections may be fought he said adding the selections of candidates and the application process for them too were discussed Lallu said We are preparing to fight on all the 403 assembly seats in the state under the leadership of Priyanka Ji we will form the government in the state Lallu said About the proposed war rooms the party leaders said they would be set up right up to the district level to keep an eye over the area and would be manned by a spokesperson and some senior leaders of the area to take a prompt decision on any emergent issue The party leaders also discussed the booth management strategy considered important for the polls they added Congress Legislative party leader Aradhana Mishra said Priyanka Ji will be here for five days during which she would be holding party meetings at her residence-cum-office in Lucknow On if she plans to visit Raebareli also Mishra said Raebareli is her home she can go there whenever she wants Priyanka Gandhi had arrived here on Monday on a five-day visit to review and discuss the partys preparedness for the next years state assembly polls This is her second visit to the state this month Earlier on September 13 she had visited UP for five days during which she had exhorted party workers to work round-the-clock for the next years elections The Congress party had fought the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in alliance with the Samajwadi Party The grand old party had managed to win just seven of the 114 seats it had contested with a vote share of 625 per cent This time the Congress party has announced that it would fight the 2022 polls without aligning with any big political party PTI ABN RAX RAX