Delhi Cong meets Youth wing to gauge MCD poll preparations

The Delhi unit of Congress today held a meeting with the party's youth wing here to deliberate on preparations for the municipal corporation elections slated for April.
This was the first official meeting between the Youth Congress workers and Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) in two-and-a-half-years, party sources said.
The meeting comes against the backdrop of the Congress suffering a crushing defeat in the civic body polls in Maharashtra and Odisha recently, following which claims of infighting and discontent among the party's youth brigade had surfaced.
The meeting was attended by DPCC chief Ajay Maken, AICC general secretary and party's Delhi unit in charge P C Chacko, Youth Congress national president Amarinder Singh Raja and Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress president Amit Malik.

The sources said the meeting was convened after noticing "other parties' focus on their youth wings", especially after Congress' drubbing in the two state polls and as a measure to ensure "coordination" among all its units.
Maken assured Youth Congress workers of getting them their due in the upcoming MCD polls, while promising that "young candidates with merit and winnability" will be given tickets for the civic body elections, they said.
Makenwas appointed Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) chief in March 2015 in the aftermath of the party's humiliating defeat in the Delhi Assembly polls.
The BJP has been ruling the city civic bodies, which consist of 272 wards in total, for the last 10 years. The mayors in all three civic bodies - the South, North and East municipal corporations--belong to the saffron outfit.