Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has warned his party against walking into traps set by the BJP, and getting diverted into issues which are not relevant to the common man or the country.
At a press conference on Sunday, senior Congress leader Pawan Khera said that Mr. Gandhi had issued the warning at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting the previous day. Opposition parties, media, civil society and intellectuals run the risk of walking into these traps and shifting their focus away from issues relevant to people and the country, Mr. Khera said, adding that Mr. Gandhi had warned of precisely such a risk.
Mr. Khera is the media and publicity chairman of the All India Congress Committee. Referring to a campaign by a section of the media on how Prime Minister Narendra Modi had overtaken British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in popularity in a survey by a private agency, as well as a video posted on social media showing Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah refusing to apply tilak on his forehead, Mr. Khera asked whether these were the kinds of traps that the party or the county should get into. “How is that relevant to unemployed or other sections that suffer,” he asked, adding that Mr. Gandhi had been referring to such traps.
