New Delhi: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will on Tuesday chair a meeting of the Congress chief ministers to discuss agrarian crisis and the controversial Land Acquisition Bill, which is being pushed by the Narendra Modi government.
The meeting will also focus on the economic policies of PM Modi and chalk out a clear cut political strategy to counter the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre.
Today's meting is crucial since it will be the first meeting of Congress chief ministers after the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) lost power in 2014 General Elections. Senior Congress leaders, general secretaries and top functionaries are also likely to attend the meeting.
During the meeting, the Congress leaders are also likely to discuss the Centre's controversial Land Acquisition Bill and chalk out a strategy to reach out to all sections of the society in a bid to scuttle the move. The Congress leaders will also take up other issues that will be built as political campaign against the BJP government.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had recently met with a group of civil society activists including Green Peace activist Priya Pillai, who wasn't allowed by the NDA government to visit United Kingdom earlier this year.
Pillai was supposed to address a group of British lawmakers on environment violations at the Mahan coal block in Madhya Pradesh, a BJP ruled state. NDA government had claimed that Pillai's statements would harm India's image abroad.
Congress party seems to be desperately trying to reconnect with groups who had deserted them in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
So far Rahul Gandhi has focused on farmers, as he travelled across Telangana, Maharashtra and Punjab to meet families of farmers who had committed suicide because of crop losses.
