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Tharoor says Rahul Gandhi’s youth campaign failed to resonate
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said Rahul Gandhi's 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' campaign failed to generate the same public response as the Cockroach Janta Party's protests on student issues. Speaking in Mumbai, Tharoor…
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said Rahul Gandhi's 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' campaign failed to generate the same public response as the Cockroach Janta Party's protests on student issues. Speaking in Mumbai, Tharoor asked party colleagues to interrogate why their initiative did not resonate with Gen Z, despite raising similar grievances like paper leaks.
The Indian Youth Congress has announced it will set up 'Students Goonj Parks' at over 250 locations across India on August 8 to livestream Gandhi's interaction with students in Prayagraj. The party said the initiative aims to create spaces for discussing education reforms, open to all students regardless of political affiliation.
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The Congress habit is to mistake a hashtag for a movement. Tharoor's blunt critique is rare, but the party's real problem runs deeper: it has no local youth cadre outside families and social media splash pages. The CJP protests worked because they were organic, leaderless, and specific, paper leaks, exam delays. Congress must ask: will 250 livestream parks fill lecture halls empty of party workers, or just project the same image of a leader speaking at a crowd that never assembles?
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