Congress must protect essence and idea of India: Sonia Gandhi at CWC meet

She adds brazen campaign is going on to bring regressive, narrow-minded view

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the Modi government, saying there is a brazen campaign to straitjacket the whole country into a regressive and narrow-minded world view.

Chairing a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's highest decision-making body, Gandhi also asserted that the Congress must be ready to protect the essence and idea of India "which this government is seeking to extinguish".

The meeting, which was attended by party vice president Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh, discussed the current political situation and the upcoming presidential election.

Top Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad, P Chidambaram, Ambika Soni, Janardan Dwivedi and other CWC members were also present at the meeting.