After 18 years, Congress war room gets a new address

From a leafy corner in the Central Delhi, the Congress party’s war room, or its operational centre for election preparations, has shifted to the heart of Lutyens’ Delhi, a bungalow next to Khan Market. Bungalow number 15 was allotted to the party’s Rajya Sabha MP Pradip Bhattacharyya, who retired in August last year, forcing the Congress to search for a new address for its war room. Apart from Senthil, who headed the party’s war room in Karnataka during the state polls last year, engineer-turned-Congress joint secretary Gokul Butail, Delhi unit member Naveen Sharma, party worker Varun Santosh and Captain Arvind Kumar and Vaibhav Walia are part of the war room, HT learns. Two senior party leaders who asked not to be named added that Congress strategists meet regularly in the war room which also hosts the party’s social media team and a few other groups.