However, Congress president Soia Gandhi and Congress general secretary and her son Rahul Gandhi, who too have been elected to the Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, are not likely to attend the meeting, party sources indicated.

Said UPCC spokesman Subodh Srivastava: 'The day's functions will commence at 10.20 a.m. with the felicitation of the new MPs at a special function at Ravindralaya.'

'While this function has been thrown open to the media, a closed door session follows in the afternoon when strategies would be discussed and debated,' he added.

'Saturday's meet marks the beginning of our battle against the undemocratic, anti-people and anti-development policies of the BSP government, which needs to be voted out in the next assembly elections in 2012,' said Srivastava.