Rahul fails litmus test

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Rahul Fails Litmus Test, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Failed the litmus Test. Reacting to Modi’s challenge, Rahul said, “ he leads another party, he believes in a different perspective but the Congress will push for what it believes in and in its perspective.”

Vows to transform Cong, empower common man

New Delhi: For the one aspiring to be Prime Minister, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi seems to have failed the litmus test of delivering victory in the latest round of Assembly polls, ahead of the crucial General Election in 2014. With Rahul Gandhi leading the election campaign from the front for the Congress, the virtual decimation of the Congress in the Hindi-heartland states will make it tough for him to inject enthusiasm in the party in the run up to the parliamentary elections. He, however. has vowed to bring about a transformation in the party by empowering the common man.

Both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi were quick to appear before the media, soon after the electoral drubbing. Rahul Gandhi was more categorical, saying that the people have delivered a message, which he and his party have heard with just not mind but the heart. The Congress has the ability to transform itself and stand up to the expectations. Rahul Gandhi acknowledged that AAP has involved a lot of people, which the traditional parties do not. He stressed on the need to move to a new paradigm to give a serious place to the common man. There is a need to think more aggressively in terms of giving space and empowerment to the common man and the Congress will do this in a better way than anyone can think of.

Reacting to Modi’s challenge, Rahul said, “ he leads another party, he believes in a different perspective but the Congress will push for what it believes in and in its perspective.”

AICC general secretary Janardhan Dwivedi was quick to delink Rahul Gandhi from the Assembly elections debacle. “We lost the Assembly elections due to organisational weaknesses and groupism,” he said. Besides, he admitted that “everything is not well in the Central Government.” Janardhan Dwivedi claimed that the Congress is not in a hurry to make Rahul Gandhi the Congress prime ministerial candidate.

Unlike Sonia Gandhi, who succeeded in delivering results despite the raging controversy over her foreign origins, Rahul Gandhi has been fumbling in his initial steps. When Sonia Gandhi assumed charge in 1998, she delivered resounding victories in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Within five years, Sonia Gandhi brought the Congress to power in several states and finally to power at the Centre in 2004 and helped the party to retain power at the Centre in 2009.

In sharp contrast, after moving onto the Congress centrestage, Rahul Gandhi has been facing huge setbacks in major states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab. In Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, in the Rae Bareli-Amethi belt, considered the bastion of the Congress First Family, the party lost all but one Assembly segment.

Rahul Gandhi and his team handpicked the Congress candidates, even as he led the campaign. He was involved in the micro-management of the elections. As such, he cannot escape the responsibility and the blame for the disastrous results.

Sonia turns 67 today

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will turn 67 on Monday but there will be no celebrations in view of the demise of Nelson Mandela. Party sources insisted that the decision was not linked to the Assembly election results. The country is observing five-day state mourning since Friday last as a mark of respect to the late South African leader.

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Rahul fails litmus test

Rahul Fails Litmus Test, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Failed the litmus Test. Reacting to Modi’s challenge, Rahul said, “ he leads another party, he believes in a different perspective but the Congress will push for what it believes in and in its perspective.”

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