Cong chalks out counter-strategy

Aditi Tandon

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 25

The Congress will pan out across India tomorrow and again on May 28 to “expose the failures” of the BJP government as it marks its second year in power.

After elaborate preparations over a month, the Congress today said it had handpicked 52 senior and young leaders of the party to visit important cities and tell people all about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “broken promises” and progress against his Lok Sabha poll slogan of “sabka saath sabka vikas.”

Leading the political offensive of the Congress will be stalwarts Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Kapil Sibal and P Chidambaram, former ministers in the UPA government. The offensive starts tomorrow with top leaders “exposing” the government in Delhi and the rest spreading out across India.

Former Ludhiana MP and minister Manish Tewari has been chosen to take on Modi in his own bastion Ahmedabad tomorrow. Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh will speak about the government’s report card in Modi’s Lok Sabha segment Varanasi tomorrow to coincide with the PM’s second year in power.

Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken will be in Jalandhar, Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda in Shimla, actor-politician Raj Babbar in Jammu and Rajiv Shukla in Chandigarh.

As many as 27 leaders, young and old, will carry Congress’ anti-PM message to people tomorrow and 25 leaders will do the same thing on May 28 across as many cities.

In the second phase, Chidambaram will hold fort in Delhi, Priyanka Chaturvedi (of the recent twitter war with Smriti Irani fame) in Chandigarh, Kumari Selja in Jaipur, Deepender Hooda in the RSS bastion of Nagpur, Abhishek Singhvi in Ahmedabad and Shakeel Ahmad in Dehradun.

Tomorrow, the Congress will release a video on two years of Modi followed by a booklet "Do Saal Desh Badhaal" on May 28.