Rahul Gandhi will be the PM face of Congress

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Jul 23, 2018, 02:12 PM

Congress CWC Meeting: Rahul Gandhi to face general Elections

New Delhi, July 23: The Congress party's highest decision-making body the Working Committee on Sunday authorized party chief Rahul Gandhi to forge alliances ahead of next year's general elections.

"The process has already started and a committee has been formed for this," Mr Gandhi told media. He refused to share details about the committee but said talks are going on with various like-minded political parties.

The strategy session was held in the afterglow of Rahul Gandhi's no-holds-barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, followed by an unscripted hug and wink that is still a talking point on social media.

While the high-on-optics show in Lok Sabha is seen as one that flustered the BJP, the Congress now has the tougher task of negotiating a way through ambitious allies and non-aligned parties to craft a stable front against the BJP for next year's general elections.

"We are committed to making alliances work and we are all with him (Rahul Gandhi) in this endeavor. We have to rescue our people from a dangerous regime that is compromising the democracy of India," Sonia Gandhi said in her address at the meeting on Sunday.

At the strategy meeting on Sunday, the Congress kept a tight focus on alliances. Giving an overview of the party's position in various states, former union minister P Chidambaram called for the broadest possible alliance within states.

Congress veteran P Chidambaram pointed out that the party was facing "a serious challenge in the 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh, 42 seats of West Bengal, 40 seats of Bihar, 39 seats of Tamil Nadu", which itself adds up to 200 seats. He asserted that there is a need to stitch alliances with regional parties in the states where the Congress is weak.