Lucknow, April 6 -- : The Congress is set to form the state executive committee to strengthen the organisation in Uttar Pradesh even as the party leadership has given signals of empowering the District Congress Committees that were reconstituted recently.

If all goes well, the party will shift focus on constituting the state executive after the national convention scheduled in Ahmedabad on April 8 and 9. However, setting up the party units down to the booth level may take some time.

All India Congress Committee general secretary (incharge U.P.) Avinash Pandey had on January 13 announced that a five-tier organisation, including district units and the state executive, will be in place in the next 100 days.

The Congress has already consti...