Identifying structural weaknesses of the Congress apparatus and the need to have micro-level election management are key learnings from the Udaipur Chintan Shivir, former Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala said on Sunday.
The senior Congress leader, who was part of a panel that suggested sweeping organisational reforms, asserted that the party needed to concentrate on reaching out to every voting household rather than harping on the “leadership issue” that, he claimed, “will sort itself out”.
He also played down poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s comments that Udaipur chintan shivir was a “failure” and the party was headed for a drubbing in the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh elections later this year.
