India, Oct. 15 -- The Congress' efforts to bring civil society on board for its protests against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar have seen limited success but an attempt was made to reach out to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) through advocate Prashant Bhushan on Tuesday, people aware of the details said.

According to the people cited above, Bhushan tried to bring the CJP leadership to a meeting of the INDIA bloc leaders hosted by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at his residence on Tuesday evening.

The CJP, however, did not attend the meeting. There was no formal discussion on the outfit during the meeting, the people said.

The Congress' invite signals a shift in stance since the party has, in the past, called the CJP a "proxy...