# Congress plans nationwide campaigns on exam leaks, temple funds 2026-08-20T02:37:05+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Wednesday announced a broad political offensive against the Narendra Modi government, deciding to expand its student outreach campaign against paper leaks to nearly 800 cities and launch a nationwide agitation over alleged theft of donations at the Ayodhya Ram Temple. The party also demanded a Prime Ministerial apology for the Haldwani 'purification ritual' involving Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, and called for freezing the 543 Lok Sabha seats for 25 years while implementing women's reservation from the 2029 elections. The CWC flagged worsening unemployment among educated youth, alleging systemic failure after 12 years of the Modi government. It also alleged continued Chinese incursions in Arunachal Pradesh, linking the situation to the 2020 Galwan clash. The party reiterated its demand for a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the Ram Temple trust accounts. On the Vande Mataram controversy, the Congress reaffirmed it will sing only the first two stanzas at party functions, following the 1937 AICC resolution. Congress Chief Ministers have been asked to submit education reform plans within one month. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both sources report the CWC meeting's decisions neutrally, with thehindu.com providing more detail on Rahul Gandhi's closed-door remarks criticising colleagues for not meeting students, while tribuneindia.com leads with the broader political offensive and adds organisational restructuring timelines. The coverage is uniform straight reporting with no discernible slant. The Congress has set a clear agenda targeting the government on three fronts: youth unemployment, temple funds, and national security. The next steps to watch are the Congress chief ministers' education reform reports due within a month and the nationwide protests on the temple donations issue. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - thehindu.com (neutral report) Straight reporting of CWC decisions with detailed quotes from Venugopal and Rahul Gandhi's closed-door remarks. - tribuneindia.com (neutral report) Straight reporting of the political offensive with added details on organisational restructuring and delimitation. This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-21T18:00:39+00:00. Tags: Congress, K.C. Venugopal, NEET, Rahul Gandhi, Ram temple, Vande Mataram Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/congress-launches-chanda-chori-campaign-expands-student-outreach/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/congress-launches-chanda-chori-campaign-expands-student-outreach/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/