New Delhi:
On Day 2 of the Congress plenary, which marks 125 years of the party, the main agenda is an offensive on RSS-terror links.
The Congress resolution is expected to ask the government to investigate RSS-terror links, two days after a huge controversy broke out with WikiLeaks revelations that Rahul Gandhi had spoken to US envoy Tim Roemer about Hindu terror being a worse threat than Lashkar.
Yesterday, party general secretary Digvijay Singh had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the killing of Sunil Joshi, an RSS activist linked to Ajmer Dargah blasts of 2007, alleging that Joshi was killed because he "knew too much".
Rahul Gandhi is expected to address the session today. It will be interesting to see how far Rahul will go to explain his stand on the sensitive issue.
During the two-day meet, the party will also do some tough talking on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Jammu and Kashmir is also expected to figure prominently on the agenda.
But on the one issue that the Congress finds itself cornered is corruption. So the party plans to take the war to Opposition's camp. It will take on the BJP on what it calls the latter's doublespeak and highlight charges of corruption against BJP government - the Karnataka land scam will top the list.
Another issue on which the Congress plans to attack the BJP is the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which will categorically be described as a crime as opposed to 'mischievous vandalism' - the phrase used in the past.
In the past few weeks, Congress-led UPA government has come under severe Opposition attack and in some quarters there's a perception that the party did not defend the government strongly enough, and that the two were not on the same page on many key issues. As the party reworks its political strategy, this is one concern it must address.