New Delhi: The Congress top brass including former chief Rahul Gandhi, incumbent president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will lead the grand old party's Lok Sabha polls campaign.
"The top three leaders will lead the poll campaign which will start from the first week of April. The plan is to ensure that at least one of them addresses a rally in the seats being contested by the party in the phase 1 on April 19," a senior All India Congress Committee (AICC) functionary said.
Out of the 102 seats across 21 states going to polls in phase 1 on April 19, the Congress is contesting around 53. According to party insiders, the Congress campaign will focus on three major issues, social justice agenda, corruption in the government and misuse of central agencies to target the rivals.
Tamil Nadu is the only big state where polling for all the 39 Lok Sabha seats will be held on April 19. The other states where polling will be held on all the seats on April 19 are Uttarakhand in the north which has five seats and Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur in the north-east which have two seats each besides the lone seat in Sikkim.
"We are working out the campaign schedule for our top leaders. There would be Congress only as well as joint rallies with DMK on the 9 seats that we are contesting as well as the remaining seats. The focus is on the secular alliance against the divisive forces. Obviously, the party's five social justice plank, corruption in electoral bonds by BJP and misuse of central agencies to target the rivals will be the central theme of the grand old party," AICC secretary in-charge of Tamil Nadu Sirivella Prasad told ETV Bharat.