Kuala Lumpur: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that internal bickering and generational fight within the Congress party and issues relating to corruption led to its defeat in the 2014 general election. Internal fight in the Congress party generational fight in the Congress party an older vision a newer vision...and those http://www.gameinformer.com/members/d4int/default.aspx just collided. We were fighting an election (2014 general election) but we had this internal conflicts going on. We had issues with corruption. And that just came together said Mr Gandhi during an interactive session in Malaysia. We fired the guys in pretty much every single case. We believe in zero tolerance against corruption. 100 per cent he added.He said the Congress party is an ideology. When you move away from the ideology the party weakens. The Congress has to stand up to certain ideals. People get confused if we don t stand by these ideals. We have to place an alternative vision. Talking about women representation in his party Mr Gandhi said: I have already told my party colleagues that I want to see at least 50 per cent representation by women within the party. It is a huge ask in a political environment but this has to be done. Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government he said it does not listen to the opposition parties on important issues like GST and land acquisition. When we approached the BJP on key issues like land acquisition and GST they didn t want to listen to us. Even BJP leaders have this issue with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They don t believe in taking along everyone said Mr Gandhi.He also said that the BJP is dividing people in India but it is going to cost the party in future. In my experience if you don t carry people together you will not be able to get things done. You need to build consensus he added.He also said that an anger is rising in India because of not enough jobs being created. To my mind jobs are going to come from SMEs from farm mechanisation from cold chains from financing small and medium enterprises. Small and medium enterprises are the biggest job creators. Today in India they are like orphans with no protection or government support. GST and demonetisation have just finished this sector. We believe that there is space for public educational institutions. Scaling them up and giving them much more autonomy is the next step. I would put in significantly more money. The BJP has reduced the allocations for education he added.He said: It is pretty much impossible to make money being a farmer in India today. So the central idea is that without government support and protection farmers cannot survive. Comments Farms are not profitable and the manufacturing sector is not firing up. Make In India is badly conceptualised. It is not connected to the existing skill base in India he added.Mr Gandhi also said that healthcare diagnostics health data genetics and the hospital system need to be connected. A strategy has to be put in place and we can dominate global healthcare.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today that demonetisation was not a good initiative and if he were the prime minister he would have thrown the proposal in the dustbin . Gandhi is on a five-day trip to the Southeast Asian countries. He began the Malaysia leg of his visit today and interacted with an enthusiastic gathering of Indian diaspora in Kuala Lumpur. Asked how he would have rolled out demonetisation differently Gandhi said if I was the Prime Minister and somebody would have given me a file with demonetisation written on it I would thrown it in the dustbin out of the door and into the junkyard. That is how I would have rolled it out because that is what I think should have been done with the demonetisation which was not good at all he said in a video shared by the Congress party on its Twitter handle. The demonetisation initiative was rolled out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 2016 announcing the invalidation of high-value currency notes currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1 000. Congress party has strongly criticised demonetisation saying the move has led to economic slowdown. Earlier at the University of California Berkeley Gandhi had said that Modi had caused tremendous damage to India s economy with his reckless and dangerous decisions like demonetisation and hastily-applied GST. Responding to a question on women empowerment Gandhi also said equality was not good enough for women empowerment and asserted that women have to be given more support than men to end the bias against them. I don t treat women equal to men but better than men. I think there is a bias in all societies including in western society and that bias needs to be corrected. And to correct that bias equality is not good enough you have to be partial to women and give them more support than you give men he said. Gandhi also addressed a gathering of young professionals at IYCON in Kuala Lumpur. Met Mr Subramaniam Sathasivam President of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) in Kuala Lumpur. Originally a part of the AICC until 1946 the MIC has played a major role in the Malaysian Independence Movement he wrote on his facebook page. Gandhi s trip is part of the Congress party s efforts to connect with the diaspora. He called on Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday and discussed a wide range of topics related to India-Singapore ties. The trip is being organised by the AICC Overseas cell headed by technocrat Sam Pitroda who helped former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi lead the IT revolution in India. Pitroda had earlier successfully organised Rahul Gandhi s visits to the US and West Asia. Later in the year the Congress president is also expected to travel to Dubai and Canada.
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: March 11 2018 9:05 am Saying that the Congress party has become very inward looking Rahul Gandhi said there is a process of opening the door inviting new people in . Related News Out of my mind: PoribortonWould have thrown demonetisation file into junkyard if I were PM: Rahul GandhiIn Singapore Rahul Gandhi attacks Modi govt accuses BJP of playing divisive politicsAN INTERNAL and generational fight in the Congress a collision between the older vision and a newer vision in the party as well as issues with corruption contributed to the Congress defeat in the Lok Sabha elections party president Rahul Gandhi said during an interaction in Singapore. Rahul in fact picked up from where he left off at an interaction with students at the University of California Berkeley in September last year. He had then admitted that a certain amount of arrogance had crept into the Congress midway through UPA-II and it had stopped conversations with people . During an interaction with IIM alumni in Singapore on Friday Rahul was asked what happened from 2010-11 during UPA s second stint in office after a great ride from 2004 to 2009. We had a perfect storm. Oil price (at) 140. Internal fight in the Congress party. Generational fight in the Congress party. An older vision a newer vision and those just went and collided. So we are fighting an election we have had this internal conflict going on. We had issues with corruption. And that just came together Rahul replied. Asked how he planned to revive and rejuvenate the party he said: The party is basically an idea it is basically an ideology and when you move away from the ideology the party weakens. It is pretty straightforward. So the Congress party has to stand up to certain ideas. The Congress party has a tremendous history and when the Congress party doesn t stand up to that history people get confused. And people start to ask the question are you really that institution. Periodically like all organisations we sort of make mistakes and we have done our share of that The first thing is to set a few rules. And say listen these five or six things if you are in the Congress party they are non-negotiable. We just will not tolerate this stuff he said. ALSO READ | Would have thrown demonetisation file into junkyard if I were PM: Rahul Gandhi Saying that the Congress party has become very inward looking Rahul said there is a process of opening the door inviting new people in . He said the party is a heritage of India and is an institution which can still serve the country. Targeting the BJP Rahul said it was silent on allegations of corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal and the charges against BJP president Amit Shah s son. He said the Congress on the other hand had fired people when corruption charges were levelled against them and argued that the Right to Information in fact had hit the party. Today you have the Rafale deal you have Amit Shah s son you have Gujarat petroleum but the strategy of the BJP is not to answer. It is happening but just not answer. We did the RTI and completely transformed the basic structure. We created transparency throughout the system and frankly that hit us. Because we dramatically increased the amount of transparency. Our position was that whenever we found out we fired the guy. Pretty much (in) every single case we fired the guy he said. Warning against divisive politics Rahul said: Unfortunately and this is something that is seen all over the world today dividing people gives you political benefits. But then it has costs. The costs are not visible today but the costs will become visible. And they are actually huge costs dangerous costs. You are weakening the country by doing that. So we will fight it. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News In 2014 I saw what bad political decision can do to years of policy-making in Kashmir: Rahul in Singapore Rahul Gandhi in Singapore: Congress has a clean slate now a new opportunity Tags: Rahul Gandhi SSachinMar 11 2018 at 9:34 amModi is a broker for Ambani Adani Tata Birla AATB Ramdev etc......He will tell France that China is a threat to India and allows French companies to sign contract with AATB...He will tell China that we are friends and should not fight each other......And he fools the entire country....Stratagically India lost Dokhlam stand-off.....Modi is just a Gujju Baniya broker....He shuffles Defence Ministers frequently......He plays this double game with Russia and US....Modi is a TRAITOR......(1)(1) Reply Gopal SriniwasanMar 11 2018 at 9:26 amRahul said: today dividing people give you political benefits. But then it has costs. The costs are not visible today but the costs will become visible. And they are actually huge costs dangerous costs. You are weakening the country by doing that. So we will fight it. Let us see if this CLOWN PRINCE of India can practice what he preaches?Let Karnataka become the Laboratory of his clean corruption-free healthy politics which will only talk about people s welfare instead of his temple caste and poverty tourism(3)(6) Reply RRajMar 11 2018 at 9:15 amThe biggest problem for Congress is that it is personified as epitome of corruption within with allies of the worst kind totally corrupt like DMK SP BSP TMC etc. It has to be tough on corrupt completely service minded! Only then it can cone back.(13)(4) Reply SSsMar 11 2018 at 9:01 amTalking of divisive politics after encouraging groups like Patidars dalits Muslims in Gujarat. Asking Churches and Clerics to issue fatwa to vote for Congress. Now starting Hindu terrorism in Karnataka.(15)(22) Reply Jjay desouzaMar 11 2018 at 9:00 amI watched his interview with IIM alumni. It was clear that he knew what the alumni was going to ask and Sam has fed him answers well before the interview. In spite of this he was so bad to answer any question and that his knowledge is so shallow on any subject bad in communication ....He said he was in Harvard Univ in Boston. Most probably the univ kicked him out for his poor performance. (He has no degree- Need to find out). Considering his knowledge and communication skills I am sure he cannot debate with any opposition leader cur ly active in politics. He is definitely going to decimate the Cong party.(8)(10) ReplyGopal SriniwasanMar 11 2018 at 9:28 amHe went on a Harvard Campus tourism for 14 days and dropped out despite being ed a paid seat?(2)(3) Reply Load More Comments
When a batter tries to hit every ball out of the park regardless of where it is pitched you know that either a rank tailender is at work or we are into the slog overs. Now even if the NDA decides to advance the date of general elections we ll have to wait till December. These are clearly not the slog overs yet and Sonia Gandhi isn t a rookie. So what was she trying to do on Friday in Mumbai at the India Today conclave? As we shall see she was trying to do several things at once. On the face of it through her speech Sonia was evidently gunning for Narendra Modi and blaming him for every real and perceived ill that currently plagues India. While that is obvious it is also unexceptionable. At a subtler level Sonia was trying to reclaim Congress s space and mantle of leadership among the Opposition. Naturally the easiest way to do so would be to make the Modi government the target of excoriating rhetoric. Brand Modi is so strong that political careers can be made or resurrected by ricocheting off it. Sonia a craftier politician than many give her credit for would have hoped to create enough noise in both mainstream and social media to place Congress at the forefront of the Opposition ranks ahead of the 2019 battle. This is crucial because Congress s leadership has come under question after a string of listless results and talks of a third front have started swirling again led by the likes of Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and even NCP supremo Sharad Pawar. The latter in fact is holding a meeting of anti-BJP parties on 27 and 28 March in New Delhi and recently sent Praful Patel to Bengal to secure Mamata s participation. File image of Sonia Gandhi. PTI What would have spiked Sonia s concern is that some Opposition leaders are pledging equidistance from Congress. In KCR s words according to a News18 report: There is a serious need to bring change in national politics. Seventy years have passed since Independence and out of those 70 years 64 years were ruled by either BJP or Congress. Even after 70 years people are suffering and they don t even have water to drink It can be a third front or anything It is unification of the people of India and not just some political parties. And this will surely be minus BJP and Congress no doubt about that. While Pawar is planning to hold meetings and KCR is calling for a third front sans the Congress and BJP Mamata is busy blaming Rahul Gandhi for the Congress s North East debacle. Soon after the results were out the TMC chief told the media that Rahul was wrong to turn down her invitation to join hands for the Tripura Assembly polls. Tripura is the outcome of CPM s surrender and Congress failure she declared. It is not a secret that Mamata has a very poor opinion of Rahul s political acumen and would rather do business with Sonia instead. Things however have become a tad complicated at the change of baton in Congress. Other constituents of this third front are equally wary of Rahul. RJD chief Lalu Yadav for instance last year had requested the presence of Sonia or Priyanka Gandhi for his BJP bhagao desh bachao rally last May. The Telegraph had reported that in a phone call Lalu apparently told Sonia You should come but if for some reason you cannot kindly send Priyanka Gandhi for the rally. This presents a problem of legitimacy for the Congress one which the wily Sonia sought to address by claiming that in 2019 Opposition parties must keep aside all their differences to unite against the oppressive Modi regime in the larger interest of the nation. Unspoken in the selfless call is the message that no formation can afford to keep the Congress out. She said We have worked together earlier. In Parliament there is co-ordination especially in the Rajya Sabha It is difficult for all the parties including ours. At the national level we can come together on some issues. But at the ground level we are opponents. There is a lot of pressure from all parties including ours like in West Bengal and many other states. It is a difficult task But if all of us think of the larger picture...if we feel and care for the country we have to sink the local differences. Sonia thundered that in 2019 we are going to come back. We are not going to let them come back to power . She even went on to claim that achhe din will sink BJP like India Shining did . Whether or not that happens is for the voters to decide. There was however a touch of arrogance and a sense of entitlement in her words which seemed a little misplaced. After all the Congress s performance in recently concluded Assembly polls in three north-eastern states has been dismal. In Meghalaya the only state where it managed a few seats Congress tally was down to 21 from 29 in 2013. In Nagaland Congress failed to open account whereas it had won eight in 2013. Its vote share in this Christian-majority state crashed from 24.89 percent to just 2.1 percent while BJP posted a handsome increase. Similarly in Tripura Congress s vote share nosedived from a healthy 36.53 percent in 2013 to a paltry 1.8 percent this year. Needless to say it didn t win any seat. If we scratch the surface the much-hyped recent bypoll results also look less than glamorous for Congress. In the two Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh that it retained Kolaras and Mungaoli Congress has been in power since 2013. What should worry Sonia is that in both these seats Congress vote share has suffered a drastic downward revision. In Mungaoli for instance Congress s margin came down from about 20 000 votes to just 2 000-odd votes. In Kolaras the margin was down to around 8 000 votes from nearly 25 000 in 2013. In both these seats the BJP has substantially increased its share even after a 15-year reign. For all its bravado before the media infighting has started over this erosion. As Economic Times notes in a report that these seats fell in the parliamentary constituency of party s CM face probable Jyotiraditya Scindia who relentlessly campaigned here is only expected to increase the tussle among state leaders on the point whether Scindia can lead the party to a win in the state eight months later. It is only in Rajasthan that Congress s prospects look good. The party won two bypoll seats and also performed well in local civic body elections. It is tough to argue however that a good show in Rajasthan is enough to convince Sonia that Congress is ready to unseat BJP in 2019 when the grand old party s performance everywhere else is taking a beating. We may therefore look at the other possibility that Sonia s belligerence against Modi which mainly was a mishmash of old and tired rhetoric before a sympathetic audience reflected more a desperation to shore up the party s morale ahead of upcoming crucial states especially as party president Rahul Gandhi was abroad busy making a meal of himself before the world. Sonia showed that Rahul has still a lot to learn.
BHUBANESWAR: Congress president Rahul Gandhi has rejected the resignation of OPCC president Prasad Harichandan and he will remain in the post till the next general election Congress sources said on Saturday. Harichandan had resigned from the post on February 28 owning moral responsibility for his party s miserable show in the Bijepur by-election. Congress which had won the seat the last time had lost its deposit in the by-poll. Harichandan had taken over as OPCC chief in December 2014. He has been facing opposition from within the party since last year s panchayat election where the Congress was pushed to the third position after BJP emerged as number two in the state politics. The AICC did not accept the resignation of Harichandan as Odisha Congress president. Rahul Gandhi wants him to continue as the OPCC president OPCC disciplinary committee chairperson Sandhya Mohapatra told a press conference here today. Gandhi felt that as the general election is most likely to be held in the next eight to nine months it will not be possible for a new PCC president to deal with the election situation within the short period. He therefore decided to retain Harichandan as the OPCC president till the next general election Mohapatra said. While BJD candidate Rita Sahu bagged 1 02 871 votes and BJP candidate Ashok Panigrahi bagged 60 938 votes. The Congress had finished a distant third with party candidate Pranaya Sahu bagging a paltry 10 274 votes in the byelection. The Congress candidate lost his deposit though the party had won the Bijepur seat in 2004 2009 and 2014 elections.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi seeking time to meet them for resolving the issue of sealing of shops in the national capital. In his letter to the prime minister he stressed on bringing a Bill in Parliament to remove anomalies in the law which are the reasons behind sealing of commercial establishments and warned that unemployment caused by the drive could impact law and order situation in the city. The reason behind sealing is anomalies in the law. It is the responsibility of the Central government to remove these anomalies the chief minister said. Kejriwal had yesterday threatened that he would go on hunger strike if the sealing drive is not stopped by March 31. Traders earn their livelihood honestly and pay tax. But they are suffering due to sealing. There is only one solution now. A Bill has to be brought in Parliament to remove anomalies in the law and save traders from unemployment he said. In his letter to Modi the chief minister said The traders are on the verge of starvation and each shop is means of livelihood for many people. If all of them are rendered unemployed (due to sealing) then it may impact law and order situation. Seeking an appointment with the prime minister Kejriwal demanded that a Bill should be brought in Parliament immediately to stop the sealing drive. In his letter to Rahul Gandhi the chief minister sought an appointment with him and said sealing of commercial establishments is driving lakhs of people unemployed. A solution to this problem should be found by rising above politics. This issue needs to be strongly raised in Parliament and pressure should be exerted on the Centre to bring a Bill over it Kejriwal wrote to the Congress president. The sealing drive was undertaken by the municipal corporations of the national capital on the directions of a Supreme Court-appointed committee in December last year. Under the drive hundreds of commercial establishments have been sealed so far due to non-payment of conversion charges and violations of Delhi Master Plan.
Mumbai: Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Sunday said not meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi ahead of the Gujarat polls was a mistake as it would have prevented the BJP from retaining power in the state.The 24-year-old Patidar quota agitation spearhead who had pledged support with the Congress for the Gujarat polls held in last December said the opposition party would have got an absolute majority had he met Rahul Gandhi.Speaking at the India Today Conclave in Mumbai Mr Patel said I have said this before as well and I am saying it now. I did not meet Rahul Gandhi. If I can openly meet Mamata Banerjee Nitish Kumar and (Shiv Sena president) Uddhav Thackeray there was no issue in meeting Rahul. It was a mistake. Had I met him the BJP would have won 79 and not 99 seats. The BJP retained Gujarat by winning 99 seats in the 182-member Assembly. The Congress improved its tally but could not oust the saffron outfit from its stronghold.After dilly-dallying for weeks Patel had in November-end declared that his Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) would back the Congress in the Gujarat polls after the latter accepted its demand for reservation to the Patidar community.Mr Patel reiterated his allegation that a high-ranking bureaucrat of Gujarat had offered him a bribe of Rs 1 200 crore to get the agitating Patels call off their https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/ahmed-khan-41 quota stir.Stating that innocent people were killed in Gujarat during the quota agitation Mr Patel said sedition charges were slapped on people who had to make regular court visits now. We also voted for (Narendra) Modi when he was the prime ministerial candidate. We had thought the youth of this country would get jobs...the farmers of the country would get a fair price for their produce but all these things did not happen he added.The Patidar leader also said that the BJP ran a communal election campaign but once it came to power it started speaking about inclusiveness.Top leaders of the saffron outfit were part of such campaigns he added.Referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath s recent remarks on Eid celebrations Mr Patel said the political discourse needed to be more positive so that people from different communities were encouraged to celebrate their respective festivals. CommentsSpeaking at the event student leader Kanhaiya Kumar said there was a trend in the country of Congress leaders leaving the party joining the BJP and turning virtuous individuals overnight. The BJP has become like a washing machine he added.
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