New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday said it will fight the rejection of its MP candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for the Rajya Sabha polls legally as well as politically, and announced that it will soon launch a nationwide agitation over the issues of inflation, NEET paper leak and CBSE OSM row. Sources said the Congress agitation would begin from June end and continue for two-three months.

These issues were discussed at a meeting of the Congress’ top brass with general secretaries, in-charges and state unit chiefs here. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Bhupesh Baghel, in-charges, PCC chiefs, among others, participated in the meeting.

Congress general secretary in-charge communications Ramesh said the meeting was held for about three hours and several issues were deliberated upon. Addressing a press conference along with Ramesh, Congress general secretary organisation K C Venugopal said the latest happenings in Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh are the cause of “great worry”. He said what happened in Madhya Pradesh is “seat chori”.