Gujarat Congress issues guideline to local spokespersons

Ahmedabad, 15 October, 2011

Gujarat Congress has issued a guideline to district and city unit spokespersons.

The guideline directs local spokespersons not to brief press on state level or national level sensitive matters.

Local spokespersons are asked to keep all local media contacts including name of correspondents, their phone and fax numbers etc with them and also provide copy of file consisting such detail to state headquarters.

Local spokespersons are also instructed that they should ensure delivery of press release and photographs of Congress programmes to media.

“There should be a separate sitting arrangement for media persons in Congress programmes, and water, cold drinks should be served to them,” a guideline further says adding that local spokespersons should sit with media persons during the programme in a space allotted to media.

On Friday, Gujarat Congress President Arjun Modhwadia appointed district spokespersons in Kutch, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Surendranagar, Amreli, Panchamahal, Dahod, Bharuch, Narmada, Surat, Navsari and Valsad districts, and city spokespersons in Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Surat city.

In some district, more than one spokespersons are appointed.

Gujarat Congress is likely to organize a workshop to train the newly appointed spokespersons.