Rahul Gandhi's elevation signals positive change in the Congress

Rahul Gandhi's elevation as Congress Vice President was one of the important outcome of the three-day Congress Chintan Shivir that concluded in Jaipur on Sunday which signals a generational change and a host of reforms in the party at a time when Lok Sabha polls were fast approaching.

The two-day AICC session also saw the young leader also made a emotional and powerful speech on the last day of the conclave.  "Congress calls on all secular and progressive forces of the country to unite in this ideological battle against those, who polarize and divide society," said Sonia Gandhi signaling that the party heading the UPA experiment for last nine years is preparing for polls.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi gave a clear message at the Chintan Shivir that the party has to strike a balance between respecting alliances where it has tied up with other parties and ensuring that the party's rejuvenation is not compromised.

The conclave provided an opportunity to the Congress to finalise its prescription for the next Lok Sabha polls with the party signaling a shift in its priorities by laying greater emphasis on the urban middle classes and youths in view of the changing demographic profile of the country and shrinking rural space.

Rahul Gandhi: I have family like relationship with Amethi's people

Congress General Secretary and MP Rahul Gandhi who visited Amethi recently had said that he shared an emotional bond with the people of his parliamentary constituency and also asked Congress  workers to begin work for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and propagate the UPA's good work and pro-poor welfare schemes.

"I have an emotional bonding with people here and that is why I am drawn to Amethi every now and then," he said. The relationship is family like and not political, he added.

Rahul Gandhi patiently heard the problems being faced by the people in the region and asked them to forget the past and begin work for the 2014 general elections. He stressed that he wanted to carry forward the work left behind by his father and late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and said unemployment would be tackled very soon and hoped that opening of Malvika Steel in Jagdishpur and an ordinance factory in Munshiganj would create jobs.

He also exhorted party workers and people of Amethi to make the best use of Rajiv Gandhi Industrial teaching Institute at Teekarmafi, the Indira Gandhi Nursing school in Munshiganj and Rajiv Gandhi Petroleum Institute and also make people aware about development initiatives taken by the Congress in the region.

Rahul Gandhi: It is shameful that people frame slogan watching TV

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress General Secretary who has been spearheading the Congress campaign in the poll bound Uttar Pradesh said that BJP coined the slogan ‘India Shining’ by watching a TV advertisement. He alleged that BJP thought that India was shining without ascertaining the realities in the country where there were no sufficient jobs, roads, water or electricity when NDA was in power for five years prior 2004.

Referring 2004 Parliament elections Rahul Gandhi reminded “During the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 while other parties made a number of hollow promises Congress had only promised a government of aam aadmi that works for poor, farmers, minorities, dalits and adivasis and we delivered it”.

“But BJP and NDA brought out a slogan in English ‘India Shining. When asked about the origin of the slogan their senior leader said that they picked it from a television advertisement. They were in power for five years. But they did not go to people, talked to them or enquired about their problems, they did not ask the women about their issues, still believed blindly that India was shining,” said Rahul Gandhi.

“You gave them a befitting reply. You decided that you trust Congress, Manmohan Singh and Sonia Ji and elected a Congress Government”, he added.

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