Cong workers to steer clear of groupism:Priyanka

The Congress sources said she told the workers to forget internal differences and work for success of party and `Mission 2012`. "Time is very short, party workers should reach people in villages and inform the electorate about welfare schemes of Congress and UPA government and muster support for party candidates," the sources quoted Priyanka as saying. She said workers were the backbone of the organisation and they would get full respect.

However, the workers should stop groupism and strengthen Rahul Gandhi, she said. Priyanka, 40, told the workers that she would handle the party`s election campaign in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by her brother Rahul Gandhi and mother Sonia Gandhi respectively, and that she would start her Amethi tour from February 2. Both Rahul and Sonia would be busy electioneering elsewhere and Priyanka would be finalising the party strategy for the polls in the state, the sources said.

When some Congress workers alleged that party candidate from Tiloi, Doctor Muslim, was ignoring them, she said that it was the responsibility of the candidate to work with all and she would keep a watch on this. On the problem of power and water, Priyanka said that for this, the party`s government was needed in UP, time for which has come.