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Cong leader for brainstorming session of partymen from AP

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Press Trust of India New Delhi

"Such get-together would help generate new ideas to revive the organisation in the state," Party MP V Hanumantha Rao told reporters here.

Y S Jaganmohan Reddy's YSR Congress swept 15 of the 18 Assembly seats that went to polls on June 12. Congress won two of the 18 seats it contested, while TRS managed to win only one.

Rao, a known detractor of Jaganmohan, said with the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly polls due on mid-2014, such a session with representatives from block to the state-level is "the need of the hour".

He said the party had held such a meet much ahead of the last Lok Sabha elections and it had proved beneficial.

 

Yesterday Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy discussed the issue of the party's poll debacle with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.

Congress has been on the back foot in Andhra Pradesh due to the rise of Jaganmohan after his father Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's death in a helicopter crash in September 2009 and the party's indecision on the Telangana issue.

  

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First Published: Jun 23 2012 | 6:35 PM IST

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