Rahul sounds poll bugle
Rahul sounds poll bugle. Irrespective of not being named the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate, Rahul Gandhi on Friday sounded poll bugle, ready to take head-on political rivals in the electoral battle ahead.
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New Delhi: Irrespective of not being named the Congress Prime Ministerial candidate, Rahul Gandhi on Friday sounded poll bugle, ready to take head-on political rivals in the electoral battle ahead. Leaving the decision to the MPs in the post-poll scenario to elect their Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi took a snipe at the Opposition, saying that unlike them, the Congress had high respect for the democratic traditions of the country, which mandate that only the elected MPs will choose their Prime Minister. He declared, “We are warriors and we will go into the battle with our heads high, knowing what we stand for.”Taking a dig at the BJP and the AAP, he said, “Now the laws are being made by the media, judges and in the streets.” The Congress has to bring back legislators and village heads back into the decision-making. He said that democracy was not rule by diktat, or rule by one man. It was a rule through empowered elected representatives.
The AICC session ahead of the crucial 2014 Lok Sabha polls was marked by unending chants of Rahul-for-PM demand. Right from the beginning of the session till the end, when Rahul gave his own reasons for not accepting their plea, the AICC delegates kept on shouting slogans in favour of Rahul. Though Congress President Sonia Gandhi at the very outset declared that the decision taken in the CWC was irreversible and final, Congress workers kept on raising the demand.
Rahul Gandhi had to intervene later saying that he will explain his position when he speaks at the end. Not heeding his request, senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad who moved the omnibus resolution and P Chidambaram who seconded it, besides all the speakers who spoke on it appealed to Sonia Gandhi to project Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Ministerial candidate. Presenting a “radical” suggestion, Chidambaram said that the tickets for half of the 543 seats in Lok Sabha should be reserved for those less than 35 years. Rahul Gandhi, in his best political speech so far exuded confidence. His body language and his aggression enthused the party workers who felt confident to back him in the electoral battle. He vowed to hear their voice and promised to empower the women by getting the Women Reservation Bill passed.
Coming up with out-of-the-box proposal, he mooted appointing women Chief Ministers in 50 per cent of the Congress-ruled States. If that was not all in his populist list, he also declared that the candidates in 15 constituencies out of the 543 seats would be chosen directly by the party cadres for the 2014 polls. He said that if the experiment becomes a success, the Congress will increase the number of seats. What got him the longest round of applause was his request to the Prime Minister, who was also sitting on the dais to raise the number of subsidized LPG cylinders from 9 to 12 cylinders. Taking on the BJP and the AAP, the undeclared Congress Prime Ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi, drew the crowd into the peals of laughter by lauding the marketing skills of his opponents. He said that their marketing had all the components of glitter, song and dance.
The Opposition was so efficient in marketing that they can sell combs to the bald. Not stopping at that, without naming the AAP, he said that now the new people have moved in who are promising hair-cut to the bald, as well. In his most aggressive speech so far, Rahul Gandhi turned the heat on his opponent Narendra Modi. Countering his slogan of “Congress-free India,” he said that the Congress is an ideology, which is enshrined in the hearts of the people which cannot be obliterated.
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