With eyes on 2022 Assembly elections, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi is all set to take tours of Uttar Pradesh at very short intervals and has decided to interact party workers twice a week to boost their morale.

Priyanka, who was appointed as the party general secretary just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to reap benefits for the grand old party, had campaigned vigorously for Congress candidates in Uttar Pradesh particularly in eastern UP.

AICC sources said that Priyanka is ready to hit the ground in the state following the Congress's debacle in the recent Lok Sabha election in order to strengthen the party organisation in time for the 2022 Assembly polls. "In a bid to ensure a direct communication with the party workers, she will meet them twice a week without prior appointments," sources said.

"It emerged from the review meetings held after the Lok Sabha polls that there should be a greater coordination and communication between the leaders and the workers. For this, it has been decided that Priyanka Gandhi will meet the party workers at least twice a week," said a Congress leader.

The plan to step up her Uttar Pradesh tours and establish a direct communication with the party workers comes days after Priyanka Gandhi, during a visit to Rae bareli, told the workers that they had let down the grand old party in the Lok Sabha polls. Accompanied by her mother and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who visited her parliamentary constituency last Wednesday, Priyanka Gandhi pulled up the party workers for failing to work for the Congress during the polls.

"I will find out the names of the workers who did not work for the party in the election," she had said, adding that those who had toiled honestly and sincerely for the party knew that from the core of their hearts. "But those who did not, I will find out their names," she had said.

But of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state, the Congress could manage to win only Rae bareli. Even party president Rahul Gandhi lost to Union minister Smriti Irani from his family stronghold of Amethi.