A Congress spokesperson, who attended the meeting and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Gandhi identified issues like agrarian distress, jobs, price rise, women’s safety and corruption in the context of Rafale jet fighter deal and bank scams as the people-centric issues they need to stay focused on.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has asked his party’s spokespersons to focus on the people’s issues and to avoid falling into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s trap of establishing a religious-themed political narrative in the run-up to the 2019 assembly elections.
He issued the directions at a meeting with the Congress’s talking heads at his residence in Delhi on Thursday. The meeting was called to discuss the party’s media strategy for the 2019 polls.
A Congress spokesperson, who attended the meeting and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Gandhi identified issues like agrarian distress, jobs, price rise, women’s safety and corruption in the context of Rafale jet fighter deal and bank scams as the people-centric issues they need to stay focused on.
The Congress, which will celebrated its 134th foundation day on Friday, is also including fresh faces in its team of spokespersons and media panelists as part of its election preparedness.
The Congress’s chief spokesman, Randeep Singh Surjewala, attended the meeting along with Ragini Nayak, Pawan Khera, Jaiveer Shergill, Rajiv Tyagi, Akhilesh Pratap Singh, and Gourav Vallabh.
Gandhi asked them not to “get derailed by the BJP’s politics of religion”. “He [Gandhi] told us to focus on the BJP government’s report card and how Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not talk about the real issues like jobs, farmers and corruption,” said another spokesperson, who attended the meeting.
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