Cong leaders meet to finetune party's poll campaign theme

Ahead of the AICC meeting here on January 17 to firm up a strategy for Lok Sabha polls, top leaders of Congress today met to fine-tune the party's campaign theme.
A decision was taken in the meeting to link the party's election campaign with the issues that will be incorporated in the party manifesto through direct feedback from people.
During the campaign, Congress will be telling people that their suggestions were taken note of by the party and included in the manifesto and if the party-headed government comes to power, all those promises will be implemented in earnest, party sources said.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was not present in the meeting which saw the attendance of leaders such Sushil Kumar Shinde and Jairam Ramesh.
The party has already given an indication that Rahul Gandhi's pitch against corruption could become Congress' main plank in Lok Sabha polls.
AICC general secretary Ajay Maken, who is the party's Communication department Chairman, had yesterday put out slogans and posters on his Twitter wall that seek to project Rahul Gandhi as a "crusader" against corruption. One of the slogans also seeks to contrast the purposes of Gandhi and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.