India, Aug. 8 -- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday said that issues taken up by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in its recent protests were already part of the Congress's student outreach 'Chaatron ki Goonj' (voice of the students), adding that his party's campaign failed to get the kind of response that the CJP got.

"Issues taken up by the CJP at Jantar Mantar had been taken up by us earlier. We had the 'Chaatron ki Goonj' thing where Rahul Gandhi was addressing students about the paper leaks," Tharoor said during his conversation at the 15th anniversary of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (IIMUN) in Mumbai.

Agreeing on the fact that Congress' student outreach programme did not 'resonate' as much as the CJP's prot...