At Sevagram CWC meeting, Cong reaches out to its parivar to take on Sangh

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In mid-January 2004, thousands of activists from across the world and all corners of India, gathered in Mumbai under the banner of World Social Forum. “Another world is possible,” they concluded and Indian activists among them returned to their pockets of influence with the resolve to work towards the defeat of the "anti-people" Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government in the Lok Sabha elections that were three months away.

It is difficult to gauge if, and how much, effect the work of these activists had on the eventual Lok Sabha results of 2004, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 138 seats and