Cong Working Committee to meet next week

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New Delhi, Sep 7 : Beset with problems, the Congress will put on its thinking cap next week amid growing signals that it would be forced to sing the mantra of coalition and alliances for the next Lok Sabha elections.

An extended meeting of the party Working Committee is scheduled for September 13 which is likely to be a brainstorming affair for the strategy ahead with several assembly polls also lined up.

The party has already got cracking for sewing up an alliance with the Samajwadi Party in the politically important Uttar Pradesh that sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha. This is for the first time that the Congress is tying up for the Lok Sabha elections in the state which was its bastion some two decades back. The meeting to be attended by senior leaders from all over the country will be held in place of a 'Chintan Shivir' as time is of essence and the leadership can't afford any delay. In the last decade, the Congress had held conclaves at Pachmarhi in 1998 and at Shimla in 2003 to fine-tune strategy.