Congress to launch grassroots campaign on paper leaks, ‘chanda chori’

The Congress on Wednesday decided to launch countrywide campaigns to take the paper leak and ‘chanda chori’ issues to the grassroots level and resolved that only first two stanzas of Vande Mataram will be sung at all party events in future.

The decisions were taken at a four-hour-long meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest decision-making body, where the leadership urged its four chief ministers to prepare a report on reforms required in the education and examination system in their respective states.

The chief ministers have been asked to submit the same to party chief Mallikarjun Kharge within a month.

The CWC



passed a resolution at its meeting in which issues of paper leak, ‘chanda chori’ at Ram temple and a Supreme Court-monitored probe into it, ‘failure’ of foreign policy and Chinese ‘incursions’ in Arunachal Pradesh, freezing Lok Sabha seats at 543 for the next 25 years and implementing 33 per cent women reservation on its present strength, besides concerns over E20 implementation were raised.

Besides the Congress president, senior party leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and several top leaders and special invitees besides all four chief minister of Congress-ruled states attended the marathon meeting held in the aftermath of the students agitation on paper leaks and the Ram temple donations row.