The Congress has changed its strategy to counter the BJP government in the state and now aggression is the new mantra in the party. The national leadership has apparently instructed the party’s state unit head Nandkumar Patel to launch series of campaigns against the BJP government till next Assembly elections (i.e. till 2013) so that Congress could encash anti- incumbency factor.
The party supremo Sonia Gandhi, who usually poses utter seriousness towards the state units which go on polls in a year or two, has categorically asked the Chhattisgarh Congress general secretary incharge B K Hariprasada to streamline the tribal-populated state before next Vidhan Sabha and general elections.
In this connection, she had recently approved constitution of three committees in PCC – coordination, monitoring and disciplinary. While the coordination committee will chalk out plan for the state unit, the monitoring committee will scan whether the BJP government was properly utilising the funds released by the UPA government for Central schemes or not. The major role of disciplinary committee will be to check factionalism and control indocile leaders and workers who frequently stake party’s image by giving controversial statements in public.
With three committees to steer the organisation in right direction, the leaders and workers are simply required to display grit and gumption, feels the party national leadership.
Patel has already conveyed the message to adopt aggressive attitude against the BJP government to party’s all the morchas, wings and cells. The outcome is prominent. The party’s frontal organisations like Youth Congress and National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) are regularly raising local issues related to public and students respectively and attempting to incommode the incumbent government.
The party’s national leaders and union ministers too have become outright vocal during their Chhattisgarh visits. The trend started in the recent past. Earlier, the national leaders of Congress usually preferred to speak calculatedly before the media while majority of the union ministers had rather praised the BJP government. Now, all the Congress leaders – whether holding the post in the organisation or in the Centre, have started giving intriguing remarks against the BJP.
Besides, the Congress has decided not to qualify its aggressive attitude to giving public statements and has rather tinged this mantra in all its activities against the state government which could be comprehended through its rallies and drives from state level to district and block levels.
With aggression as strong weapon to counter BJP, the party hopes that this time it will regain power in the state.
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