Congress president Sonia Gandhi will on Thursday meet the party's general secretaries and state in-charges to chalk out a strategy to plan protests against the government on issues such as the hike in petrol and diesel prices and the current Covid and political situations.
AICC sources said the leaders will give their suggestions for taking on the government and reaching out to the people to highlight its failures, sources said. Besides the hike in fuel prices, the Congress will also plan protests against the government over high inflation, the pace of Covid vaccination and handling of the pandemic, they said.
The economic situation of the country is also likely to figure during the discussions. The meeting comes ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament which is likely to start in July’s second fortnight . Congress has been also attacking the government on issues related to the farmers' agitation against three new agri laws.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi slammed the Centre for not paying compensation to kin of Covid victims, Congress general secretary incharge of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi wrote to UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to flag the problems being faced by wheat farmers in selling their produce and demanded that the government should guarantee wheat procurement.