Cong readies sharp speakers for TV act
The Congress’ attack on Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will be pointed, sharp and strategic through its team of select leaders who are articulated and effective on television channels.
If the party insiders are to be believed, leaders will be chosen carefully for TV debates at least 24 hours before the programme, to demolish Mr Modi’s campaign through electronic media.
They further said that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi are carefully watching TV debates on Mr Modi, the BJP’s election campaign committee chief.
Though Mr Modi has never been known for his oratory like Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, Ms Sushma Swaraj in the BJP, his capacity to give communal spin, twist to any issue, is keeping him in the spotlight, they viewed.
“He has become majboori (compulsion) of the RSS, it has no option left but to back Modi,” a senior Congress leader said.
Significantly, a BJP central leader disclosed that Mr Modi had told his colleagues that he would have been the sarsanghchalak (chief) of the RSS if he had not joined the BJP.
The Congress sees the coming Lok Sabha elections as not a battle between the UPA and the NDA, the Congress and the BJP or communal versus secular but against a person whose dictatorial tendencies have already come to the fore.
And that is the reason why the Congress is attaching more importance to the TV debates on Mr Modi and the issues he has been carefully raising through the media, social, electronic and print.
The Congress does not want its light weight leaders to take on Mr Modi on TV debates and discussions. “This helps Modi and his friends in the electronic media,” they said.
On Wednesday, Mrs Gandhi and Mr Gandhi have appointed two AICC national media coordinators, whose primary duty is to shortlist its participants on TV discussions well in advance and ensure that the show must be effective.
This means TV channels cannot call persons of their choice for discussion and thus help Mr Modi.
The national media coordinators are Mr S.V. Ramani and Mr Deepak Amin. One of them was said to be working in the Congress’ “war room” at G.R.G. Road in New Delhi.
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