For transparency, Team Rahul now works on intra-party website

“The work is still in very initial stages and the details are being worked out. Essentially, Rahul’s team is working on a project to create a new intra-party platform for interactions. The idea is to catalogue the work done by the party on an online forum, and make it available to all party people,” a party source said.

IYC president and MP Rajiv Satav, known to be Rahul’s close aide, is monitoring the project. According to sources, this is much like Rahul’s primaries experiment which was first tested at the IYC level and then brought to the parent party, with the objective of bringing in transparency.

There are plans to link the intra-party website to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, although the exact modalities are still being worked out. The website is likely to be made accessible right down to the party booth workers, as per the current plan, giving them the opportunity to post details of rallies and events being organised at their level.

Interestingly, the party already has at least two more such forums — Khidki and Pehchaan (for IYC) which can be accessed only by party members through a unique login and password. Party sources, however, said both these experiments have not really taken off, facing stiff resistance from party workers who felt these “distracted from ground-level politics and reduced the complex political process to surface-level experiments”.