Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will decide the party’s strategy in Parliament during the Buget Session after realising that a section of the party is reluctant to take on the Modi government.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will decide the party’s strategy in Parliament during the Buget Session after realising that a section of the party is reluctant to take on the Modi government.
This section was said to be in favour of the passing of the GST bill and the land bill and was not keen on rasing the DDCA issue, but Mr Gandhi’s insistence compelled the party leaders to attack the government in the last session.
It is unclear whether the main Opposition would be raising the issues like the “Lalitgate”, “Vyapam” scam, PDS/rice scam in Chhattisgarh but Team Rahul wants the Congress to be aggressive inside Parliament and focused on its target.
“Instead of attacking a single minister or a couple of ministers, we should take on the entire government on the issues of growing tensions in the society, economy, attacks on dalits and Pathankot airbase and attempts to project opponents as an anti-national,” Rahul supporters said. The Congress vice-president has been taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP and the Sangh Parivar on governance and ideological issues across the country.
He has established good equations with the Left, the JD(U) and now even the DMK has moved closer to the Congress on national issues.
The Samajwadi Party and the BSP are uncomfortable with Mr Gandhi because he has been attacking them on governance in Uttar Pradesh and dalit issues although the Congress is placed to a fourth position in the state and lacks a strong organisational network there.
His attempt to establish rapport with the students by backing their issues as seen in the FTII, Pune, Hyderabad Central University and JNU has provoked the BJP and the Sangh Parivar.
Mr Gandhi told the Congress workers--leaders in private meetings that the party has proved the BJP as an anti-poor in less than two years of the Narendra Modi government.
