New Delhi: The upcoming Assembly elections in half a dozen states and the Lok Sabha elections will be high on the agenda of an extended Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting here tomorrow which will also discuss possible alliances.

Inflation will dominate the discussions on the economic agenda and the party may draw up plans to cash in on the Indo-US nuclear deal which has ended the country s nuclear isolation, Congress leaders said.

Around 150 delegates, comprising party General Secretaries, Secretaries, CWC members, PCC Presidents, CLP leaders along with Union Ministers would deliberate on these issues besides others to generate new ideas and to decide a political strategy in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls.

Party President Sonia Gandhi would chair the meeting in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi are expected to be key participants.

"A resolution is likely to be passed praising the foreign policy of the UPA government in view of the waiver at Vienna and also to thank Party President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh," a leader said.

The extended meeting of the CWC is taking place in place of a "chintan shivir" due to lack of time before the Assembly elections. The party needs to put in place an electoral strategy as early as possible, according to the leaders.

"Elections would be held in six states - Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and also in Jammu and Kashmir in November or December. These elections would be a litmus test for the party and would indicate which way the political wind is blowing. Our focus would be to come out with a winning strategy," a senior leader said.
Source : PTI