Summary:
Mr.
Chidambaram, who heads the party’s manifesto committee for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, said the Congress would seek public opinion before finalising the manifesto. Answering a question, Mr.
Chidambaram said he had been pointing out the “blunders” of the Union government on the economic front and people were convinced that it was incompetent in managing the economy. The former Union Minister said it was a matter of suspicion that the government had ignored the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics in the deal. On AIADMK’s protest against the DMK and the Congress for their ‘complicity’ in the Eelam war in Sri Lanka, Mr.
Chidambaram said “the AIADMK leaders were nowhere during the war and do not even know what exactly happened”. He said the All India Congress Committee secretary had sent a circular seeking the views of the party workers in every district ahead of finalising the manifesto and the first Congress workers’ meeting would be held at Kalayarkoil on October 20..