‘Next PM Rahul Gandhi’ : Congress begins proxy campaign for 2019 polls
Congress begins proxy campaign for Rahul-Modi big face-off in 2019.While the party is set to wait till the various assembly polls are out of its way this year before it steps up the campaign around Rahul, several Congress volunteers who run surrogate pages on social media have begun to send out feelers in a bid to get a sense of mass sentiment.
Facebook pages such as ‘Rahul Gandhi As Next PM of India’, ‘RG Next PM of India’, ‘Next PM RG’ among others, run by Congress party volunteers and sympathisers are keeping a tab on the traction and will eventually provide feedback to the party.
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“There are over 20 or so surrogate pages and they are run by friends and sympathisers of the Congress party. The social media team or the party’s main strategy teams are too tied up with the upcoming assembly polls as of now. So while they focus on the imminent polls, the surrogate pages will begin creating a buzz around Rahul Gandhi,” said a party leader.
“We are in touch with those running these surrogate pages and will soon submit a report on what the initial feedback is so that the social media and campaign strategy teams can take it forward”, said another senior party functionary.
“This is just the groundwork and our focus currently is on the assembly polls in Karnataka and later in the year in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,” the leader added.
“We seem to have a strong footing in these states right now and we have to build on our campaigns here,’ the leader went on to say, explaining that the party’s current focus is on the upcoming state elections: ‘So to officially pitch Rahul Gandhi for the PM’s post right now will not only take away from our assembly poll campaigns but will not have much impact.”he added.
“The actual campaign around Rahul ji will begin only once we are closer to the parliamentary polls.”he added.
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