At a time when Narendra Modi is becoming increasingly aggressive, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked party’s media managers “not to remain silent” and counter “with content” the Opposition propaganda.
He insisted that there should be “uniformity” in the response of party leaders on any issue from district Congress to the AICC level.
Addressing 32 media chiefs of the party from states and union territories, Mr Gandhi also told them that a performance evaluation mechanism is there in the party now and hence those who have shown results will no longer be ignored.
Mr Gandhi addressed the state media chiefs on Thursday evening at Jawahar Bhavan, where the party organised a day long workshop on social media, the first-of-its-kind to train spokespersons on Twitter, Facebook and other interactive Internet sites.
Union ministers Manish Tewari and Shashi Tharoor, AICC media department chief Ajay Maken and party MP Dipender Hooda addressed separate sessions for the party’s media strategists from across the country.