Overview
- After a three-hour review at Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence with Rahul Gandhi and K. C. Venugopal, the high command told Punjab leaders to stop airing internal matters in the media or on social platforms.
- Venugopal said the high command will handle candidate selection and campaign strategy, and he warned that collective letters or other group activity will not be tolerated even as individual meetings are welcome.
- The party reiterated its commitment to representation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and economically weaker sections, asking leaders to raise such issues only on party forums.
- Rahul Gandhi’s Kurukshetra session with district chiefs from Haryana and Uttarakhand stressed strict discipline and village-level mobilisation as part of the ongoing Sangathan Srijan training drive.
- Separately, party sources said Shashi Tharoor plans to skip a Delhi strategy meeting after he felt slighted at a Kochi event, even as the leadership publicly underscored its zero-tolerance stance on indiscipline.