Fourth INDIA meeting on December 19; motto to show unity floated: ‘Main nahin, hum’

It is to be seen whether the other parties agree to this theme, which was one of the slogans of the Congress’s 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign.

Back then, the slogan had created a political controversy. A Congress advertisement, which appeared in all major English and Indian-language newspapers then, had the phrase “main nahin, hum” emblazoned behind Rahul Gandhi. The BJP then claimed that the tagline was coined and used by Narendra Modi during his Chintan Shibir in 2011 in Mehsana.

The INDIA meeting is being convened after the Congress suffered humiliating defeats in Assembly elections in the heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

The challenge now before Opposition parties is to come out with an alternative agenda, a leader said.

Sources said the parties would also give a final shape to a common programme for the alliance.