Priyanka Gandhi on campaign trail in Amethi, Rae Bareli

AMETHI, Jan 16: Priyanka Gandhi on Monday began her tour of Congress strongholds Amethi and Rae Bareli and met with party workers to devise a strategy for the upcoming UP Assembly polls.

Priyanka, who arrived on Monday morning, is holding parleys with workers of her brother Rahul Gandhi's constituency at the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital Guest House in Amethi.

She is meeting workers upto the block level and assembly segment wise to devise a strategy for the coming polls, Congress sources said.

Besides party nominees, block and nyay panchayat level workers, youth Congress, Seva Dal, Mahila Congress workers are taking part in the meeting.

Priyanka, 40, who is expected to take over the campaign in these two areas as Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi would be busy electioneering elsewhere, would be finalising the party strategy for the polls in the state, she said.

Earlier, her cavalcade stopped at Babuganj where some party workers demanded that a person of clean image be given a ticket for Gauriganj seat.

Congress has six of the 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies. While Amethi is represented by Rahul Gandhi, Rae Bareli is represented by Sonia Gandhi.

The first phase of polls in Uttar Pradesh will be held on February 8 and conclude on March 3 over seven phases.

Congress will consider reservation for muslims if it comes to power: Digvijay

NEW DELHI, Jan 14: The congress party has said that it would consider giving reservation to muslims in Uttar Pradesh on the lines of similar reservation in states of Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh, if it comes to power in Uttar Pradesh.

The statement comes just days after election commission asked the central govt to put on hold its decision to provide 4.5 percent sub quota to minorities within 27 percent OBC reservation in five poll bound states.

Congress party's incharge for UP, Digvijay Singh also termed Samajwadi party's promise of 18 percent reservation to muslims over and above 49.5 percent reservation, as impractical and false promise.

Singh further said this would require a constitutional amendment and the SP did not have the number to get it passed.