New Delhi: With campaigning for Delhi polls coming to an end on Thursday, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will brainstorm with senior party leaders on Friday on ways to make the party fighting fit.

He will meet party general secretaries and secretaries at a meeting of the Congress Central Election Authority. The Committee headed by Mullapalli Ramchandran has been given the responsibility of organisationals polls.

The process for organisational elections has already begun and it will culminate with the election of a new party President next year.

It was extended for two more months from December 28 to February 28 as due to elections and other reasons many state units were finding it difficult to cope with the earlier deadline.

Organisational weakness has been cited one of the major reasons for the debacle of Congress starting from 2010 Assembly elections in Bihar and followed by Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh in 2012.

It was one of the factors responsible for the abysmal show by the party in last year's Lok Sabha polls, apart from price rise and perception of corruption. Congress tally plummeted to a mere 44 from 206 the previous time.

Some of the ideas of Rahul Gandhi like introducing elections at all levels in election of party office bearers have not found much favour with the old guard.

The decision to revise the tenure of party bearers from three years to five years ratified at the AICC plenary at Burari in 2010, is also likely to be revised. These issues have come up in earlier meetings of the Election Authority.

In his first formal interaction with top party leaders in October last year after the defeat of Congress in Assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana, Gandhi had said the organisational elections should be utilised to 'reinvigorate and rejuvenate' the party following the debacle in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.

Source: IBN