Rahul calls key Cong meet on July 27
A debate on food security and Hindutva will begin in the coming days with the Congress and the BJP going to the people with these issues ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
While the Congress is optimistic that it will reach out to the poor through the food security programme and thus defuse the BJP’s divisive campaign, the saffron party is confident to win the elections on the issues of price rise, unemployment and misgovernance, besides Hindutva.
Meanwhile, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has called a meeting of the PCC chiefs and CLP leaders here on July 27 on the food security bill.
The meeting will also be addressed by Union ministers Jairam Ramesh and K.V. Thomas. AICC secretaries and the chiefs of the party’s frontal wings will attend the meeting.
Mr Gandhi will also hold a two-day workshop on media strategy for over 150 party spokespersons from the states on July 22 and 23, where they will be explained how to put across the party’s view point on various issues effectively.
Though the primary agenda of the workshop is media planning, the programme coinciding with the party’s thrust on food bill, has triggered speculation that the Congress is keen that its message on food security is effectively communicated to the masses across the country and hence an urgent need to tone up the media presence in states is being felt.
The meetings come a fortnight after Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked the chief ministers of the party-ruled states to expeditiously implement the food security scheme in “letter and spirit” so that “nobody sleeps hungry”.
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