3 min read New Delhi May 6, 2026 05:22 PM IST First published on: May 6, 2026 at 05:22 PM IST To win elections now, political leaders need to understand Gen Z’s vocabulary to communicate with them, senior Congress leader VD Satheesan told The Indian Express today. Satheesan, the Leader of the Opposition in the last Assembly, is being seen as one of the frontrunners for the Chief Minister post after the Congress-led UDF scored a massive win in the recently held Assembly polls. He is a six-time MLA from Paravur. In The Indian Express Idea Exchange, he was asked about the challenges Congress faces at an organisational level. The main opposition party is now in power in just four states, three of them in southern India. Satheesan said political parties must be “election-oriented” and work on strengthening the organisation at the grassroots. “Election engineering is an art. With surgical precision, we have to do election work so that wherever we failed, we can come back,” he said.…