NEW DELHI: Never before has Congress appeared as eager to raise an agitation against the Modi government as now.
Barely a month after deciding to hold an agitation, Congress president Sonia Gandhi will on Saturday hold a top-level party meeting to emphasise the importance of the nationwide protest planned between November 5-15.
She will chair a gathering of AICC general secretaries, heads of departments and frontal organisations. Sou- rces said the discussion is likely to take stock of the state-wide plan for protests.
On the backfoot after the Lok Sabha rout at the hands of BJP, the opposition party believes that it can tap into the present economic slowdown and dip into unemployment to generate a grassroots anger against the BJP government besides using it to activate the rusted party units.
Last week, Congress announced its opposition to Regional Comprehensive Economic Programme, a mega trade deal with ASEAN countries and other big economies including China. The party has said it will endanger domestic industries, especially dairy and fishery sectors, and urged other opposition parties to forge a “common agitational platform” against RCEP.
The mega trade deal is likely to be blended with economic slowdown as the agenda of protest which will see every state unit down to district level take to streets.
It is believed the opposition did much better than expected in recent assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra because of the economic distress. Congress sources said the party wants to try and exploit this rare opportunity in the time of BJPs ascendance.
At the end of the 10-day programme, a public rally is likely to be organisedRead More – Source
