(LiveMint)
The Congress party sounded the poll bugle for the general elections at the crucial plenary session of the party that ended on Sunday, with its president Rahul Gandhi declaring party workers will show “how to fight and win elections” in 2019. Over the three-day plenary, the Congress party gave clear indications—through speeches by senior leaders and resolution documents—that farm distress and unemployment are going to be its two main poll planks to try and corner the government in 2019.
“In the next six-seven months, we need to have strict discipline. There will be some hurdles but let us come together and fight these elections. In 2019, the Congress workers will show the country how Congress party fights elections and wins elections,” Gandhi told party members at the 84th plenary session which took place at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi.Laying out a roadmap for what his priorities are going to be as the newly appointed party chief, Gandhi said that his key focus is to break two kinds of “walls”—one that exists between party workers and senior leadership and the other between the youth and the political systems.
