The campaign of the Congress for the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections was run from the party’s war room, set up in Bengaluru by KPCC vice-president Sooraj Hegde and KPCC general secretary Mehroz Khan. The war room was chaired by Randeep Singh Surjewala, Congress general secretary in charge of Karnataka.
Primarily, the war room turned into a coordinating point for all Congress candidates across Karnataka. Members of the war room helped candidates in filing nominations, organising the required documentation, addressing nomination issues and also helping them to be fully compliant with EC requirements, including tutoring them on what kind of speeches should be avoided. They also offered training in equipping booth workers for election and counting day work.
“War rooms are now a compulsory factor for political parties to ensure smooth communication, coordination, messaging, and also in ensuring timely action is taken based on information available through political intelligence and surveys,” said Mehroz Khan, a war room veteran and in-charge of the Congress war room in Bengaluru for the 2023 Assembly elections.
