On a personal note, I want to keep fit and healthy in 2016 by focusing on my exercise regimen. I would like to restart my yoga exercises and make time for running and jogging. I’m afraid I have been neglecting these activities over the past year.

Besides concentrating on my physical fitness, I want to focus on deliverables at work. I want to make sure that there is no let up in our [Congress communication] department’s sustained and sharp critique of the Modi government’s policies. However, I want to go beyond just criticising the National Democratic Alliance government. I would also like us to be known as a constructive opposition by providing meaningful solutions on specific policies to show the way ahead to the ruling alliance.

As far as the Congress is concerned, I firmly believe that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi will be elevated as party chief this year and will lead us from the front. I am confident the Congress will rise again to successfully meet the various challenges it faces and take up all societal issues that are weakening the country’s social fabric. This is not just a wish but it will be a reality.