Rahul to meet CLP leaders and PCC chiefs on food security bill

Keen to spread the message of the "game changer" food security bill across the country, Rahul Gandhi will hold day-long deliberations with PCC chiefs and CLP leaders of all states here on July 27.
Rahul will also hold a two-day workshop on media strategy for over 150 party spokespersons from the states on July 22 and 23, where they will be explained how to put across the party's view point on various issues effectively.
Though the primary agenda of the workshop is media planning, the programme coinciding with the party's thrust on food bill, has triggered speculation that Congress is keen that its message on food security is effectively communciated to masses across the country and hence an urgent need to tone up the media presence in states is being felt.

The meetings come a fortnight after the Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states to expeditiously implement the food security scheme in "letter and spirit" so that "nobody sleeps hungry".
They are also being held at a time when the party is preparing for the next Lok Sabha polls and is keen to reach out to the people with its populist measures.
While the two-day media workshop is aimed at toning up the party's media presence and put in an effective communication system of the AICC in states ahead of the next Lok Sabha elections, the July 27 meeting aims at flagging the need to urgently implement the food security measure.

The meeting on the food security will also be addressed by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh and K V Thomas. AICC secretaries and the chiefs of party's frontal wings will attend the meeting.
In the Saturday meeting with 13 Congress Chief Ministers, AICC general secretaries and Congress Core Group members, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said bottlenecks, if any, in the implementation of the scheme will be removed.
The deliberations had seen a number of AICC General Secretaries and Chief Ministers raising concerns over poor condition of Public Distribution System (PDS).