Election results: Priyanka reviews Congress drubbing in UP Assembly polls

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday chaired a review meeting on the recently concluded Assembly polls in the country's most-populous state. The review meet comes five days after the Congress registered its worst performance in the elections, managing to win just two out of 403 seats, five less than the 2017 tally.

Congress legislative leader Aradhana Mishra and Virendra Chaudhra from Rampur Khas and Pharenda were the two winning candidates from the Grand Old Party. The Congress failed to open its account in Raebareli and Amethi, considered as the Gandhi strongholds.

Vadra's review meeting comes days after the Congress' highest decision making body reaffirmed its faith in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi. The Congress Working Committee requested the 75-year-old leader to lead the party from the front, address the organisational weaknesses, effect necessary organisational changes.

"Every sentence spoken by every member of the Congress Working Committee is not open to media. One thing every single member unanimously agreed is that they have absolute faith in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi. She should continue as the president of the party until the election is conducted. And there shall be no wisp of anything otherwise," Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had said after the CWC meet.

The Congress' electoral fortunes have plummeted in Uttar Pradesh, the state which once used to be a stronghold for the Congress party. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were the Congress prime ministers from India's most populous state. The Grand Old Party had won an astounding 388 seats in the Assembly elections held in 1951.

The last Congress chief minister was Narayan Dutt Tiwari. However, with the rise of regional outfits like Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samaj Party dominating the political discourse, the Congress lost much of its voter base.