New Delhi, Feb 12 (PTI) Rahul Gandhi's scheduled

interaction with state Congress leaders this week has now become a two-day affair signalling that he wants to bring the organisation in shape at all levels on a war footing. The Congress Vice-President will now be meeting the PCC heads and CLP leaders on February 15 and 16 instead of only on February 15 as announced earlier, party sources said today. They said there has been no fixed agenda for the meeting indicating thereby that state leaders could be having a free and frank interaction with Gandhi on a range of issues. Consultations with the state level leaders is being seen as a move to strengthen the party in various states ahead of the general elections. The meeting assumes significance as Assembly elections in nine states, including Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi, are scheduled this year. At the same time, the meeting is also being held after the recently concluded exercise at the AICC where Rahul heard problems and suggestions from national office bearers ahead of changes in the party. Rahul had initiated the consultations soon after being made the Vice-President at the Congress' Chintan Shivir in Jaipur. He has held three rounds of consultations with AICC office bearers and promised them that such interactions would be held regularly. Though Congress is in power in a dozen odd states, Andhra Pradesh is the only major state where it has a government on its own. Problems have cropped up there due to the Telangana issue and emergence of the YSR Congress. Congress is out of power for several years in major states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. The party is out of power for more than three decades in West Bengal though it was in the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government for a brief period.