Cong will secure more seats in UP polls: Mistry

After the success of the party in the Bihar Assembly elections, Congress today exuded confidence that it will manage to win more than half of the seats in 404-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections slated to be held in 2017.
"In Bihar, we had four seats, which rose seven times with party winning 27 seats in the recently-concluded Assembly polls. In UP, we have 28 seats, and according to my estimates, they will increase at least eight times," AICC General Secretary and incharge of party affairs in the state, Madhusudan Mistry, told reporters here.
The Congress leader, who earlier in the day took part in a meeting of district unit presidents, was asked whether his party will repeat the show put up in Bihar in UP's 2017 elections.

"The people of Bihar have given a befitting reply to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP has received a severe drubbing which might not have been contemplated by Modi...People of Bihar are very intelligent and they are very politically aware. Bihar elections have opened a new path for the country," he said.
Other issues, including the strategy for the 2017 elections and organisational matters, were discussed in the meeting with the district presidents, he said.
Refusing to elaborate on the strategy, Mistry said that the party's roadmap for 2017 was ready.
He said that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will meet the Saharanpur farmers on November 23 and undertake six kms long padyatra.