As the state gears up for assembly elections later this year, a mixture of propaganda and conjecture against the Congress are doing the rounds on social media. Some of them include, "Petty politics by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ensured Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel could not be the first Prime Minister of India", "The Congress was against Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar" and "Members of the Nehru-Gandhi clan are Muslims".
To counter these conjectures, the youth wing of the Congress will organise a two-day training session for its activists at Shirdi on June 15 and 16, where they will be taught ways to counter the propaganda in the battle for perceptions and mind-space.