
The month of November has seen the Congress cast in a three-dimensional political theatre. The assembly poll campaigns in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat have seen the party adopt different styles, and simultaneously, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra – covering 12 states in 150 days – has been pitched as the party’s mass contact programme, aimed at rejuvenating party-people ties.
The third arena, however, seems out of sync with the concerted messaging of the above two campaigns.