Patna, June 21: Congress in Bihar today chalked out a detailed three-month mass contact programme to establish direct links with people in a bid to regain its lost ground in the state. At a meeting held at the Congress' state headquarters, which was presided by the newly appointed state unit chief Ram Jatan Sinha, the party leaders decided to visit each and every village in the state from June 30 and get first hand information about the problems of the people and establish direct contact with the masses.

"We will go to every village, block and district in three months to bring people back to the Congress fold", Sinha told reporters after the meeting.

He expressed confidence that Congress would become number one party in the state within three months under the leadership of AICC president Sonia Gandhi.

Sinha, who has been an MLA thrice, and had defeated RJD supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav in Patna University students union poll for presidentship in 1971, admitted that Congress' hold in the state had diminished because of its distancing from the common people.

Bureau Report