'No magic wand': Cong's Chintan Shivir to focus on party revival

The Shivir will conduct deliberations across six different groups that will take up political, economic, social justice, farmers, youth, and organisational issues

Setting the rules for a potentially contentious party meeting, Congress President Sonia Gandhi asked those 400 or so delegates who will attend the Congress’ Chintan Shivir (brainstorming session) at Udaipur later this week to avoid a blame game.

“Self-criticism is of course needed in our party fora. But this should not be done in a manner that erodes self-confidence and morale and an atmosphere of gloom and doom prevails. To the contrary, we are beholden to put our heads together and tog­ether, collectively overcome the challenges that face us,” she said in her remarks to the Congress Working Com­mittee (CWC) that