Despite challenges, efforts on to revive Congress in Uttar Pradesh

To make matters worse, the party has yet not announced its UP unit president after the incumbent, Ajay Kumar Lallu, resigned

Delivering a pep talk to party colleagues on June 1, following the crushing defeat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly elections earlier this year, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra unhesitatingly said the outfit had failed to connect with the people.

Vadra, who is in charge of UP, was seeking to provide a vision to a perceptibly rudderless party rank and file ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, which are two years away. Besides, the elections to the state local bodies are due in the coming months.

To make matters worse, the party has yet not announced its UP unit president