Congress president Sonia Gandhi will arrive here on Monday on a day's visit and is expected to address party issues in Jammu and Kashmir, where the Congress is a junior ally in the government.
Gandhi will interact with party leaders and workers at Basholi, a hilly town Northeast of Jammu, May 23 and would discuss the future Congress strategy in the state, informed sources said.
A senior party functionary told IANS that Gandhi closely monitored the developments in the state and wanted the party to expand its base in all the three regions of Jammu, Kashmir Valley and Ladakh.
"We will apprise her about the success in the panchayat elections which have shown that Congress is strong at the grass-roots level," the functionary told IANS. Gandhi, accompanied by defence minister A.K. Antony, will also lay the foundation stone of a bridge across river Ravi in Basholi.