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Reach out to villages: Rahul tells Tamil Nadu Youth Congress
Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday urged cadres of the Youth Congress to reach out to villages and strengthen the party at the grassroots level so that the Congress can come to power in Tamil Nadu at a future date. Gandhi, on a two-day Tamil Nadu tour, met officials of the state Youth Congress at Tirunelvelli and Tirupur.
On Thursday morning, he reached Tirunelvelli from Madurai where he had spent the previous night.
Addressing the youth wing officials at Tirunelvelli, he urged them to focus their energies at the panchayat level so that the party can grow in strength.
He said the party’s youth wing cadres should meet the rural people and take remedial measures to alleviate their sufferings and ask them to follow only the Congress party’s ideals and policies and not of any other party.
Gandhi later reached Tirupur and met the Youth Congress officials there.
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Rahul Gandhi integral part of key committee that will draw congress policies.
Rahul Gandhi, who has often talked about going and doing it alone in key states like, Uttar pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, is a Prominent member of Draft Committee of the All India Congress Committee. Which Will finalize the political future of the congress at the plenary being held from December 18.
The young Congress General Secretary is among the twenty two members of the high level committee headed by senior leader Pranab Mukherjee, Which has been tasked to prepare the draft political, economical and foreign policy resolutions.
This is a second plenary after the UPA came to power in 2004 and first after 2009 Lok Sabha elections, in which the coalition retained power with congress crossing the 200 mark in the 543 -member Lok Sabha after a gap of over 15 years.
Prominent among those in the draft committee are senior leader like Arjun Singh, A K Antony, Digvijay Singh, P. Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh.
However, the sub-committee which will finalize the draft resolution on political situations is headed by A K Antony.
The sub Committee on economic resolution is headed by Pranab Mukherjee and the another one on foreign affairs is headed by Commerce Minister Anand Sharma with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna being prominent member.
After the Sub-Committees finalize the draft resolutions, The Draft Committee will pass them.
CPI(M) days are numbered “Rahul Gandhi”
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today accused CPI(M) of plundering central funds intended for the poor and hapless people ,Rahul gandhi said the days of the Marxists in West Bengal are numbered.
“There are two Bengals. One belongs to the CPI(M) where there is money and glint and the other belongs to you and me where there is darkness and backwardness and where there is no prosperity, employment, roads and electricity.
This was Gandhi’s first public rally in the urban center and the crowd clapped every time he attacked the CPI(M) in his hard impacting speech. Assembly elections in the state are due next year.
Asserting that the CPI(M) had been indulging in loot of central funds meant for the poor from the last 33 years, Rahul Gandhi said, “The Centre has been giving money worth Millions of rupees to Bengal under MNNREGA and various other schemes, but the money is being drawn off by the CPI(M) and not reaching the assigned poor people.
Forty five of the people in West Bengal do not even have ration cards, He said adding CPI(M) did not pay any attention to the needs of the common men, but worked for the profit of the party only.
Referring to his visit to China,Rahul Gandhi said senior Communist leaders of the country raised questions about the functioning of the Marxists in Bengal.
“They wanted to know what happened to the Communists of Bengal. They are still adhering on to old thinking of the ’70s and ’80s when the world is going forward.
Remembering that Soviet leaders had met his father Rajiv Gandhi when he was the Prime Minister, he said at that time Soviet Union was under Communist rule. Then one day he read in the news papers that Communism had been wiped out from USSR overnight.
“The day is not far off when the CPI(M) will be rooted out from the state,” rahul said.
“The 70 or 80-year-old ideology of the Communists, which has become obsolete and disused in the rest of the world, still exists in West Bengal and this exists for the CPI(M) too.
This is not for you,” he told the rally at “Shahid Minar maidan” organised to launch the membership drive for the state youth Congress.
Citing to the oft-quoted phrase ‘what Bengal thinks today India thinks tomorrow’, Gandhi said, “Now the rest of India thinks and the CPI(M) does not let you think.”
“The question is not whether CPI(M) remains in Bengal. That decision has already been taken by the people. The question is what we can do for the youth and I have been given an opportunity in the party in which youth find a place.”
He said when he had gone to UP five years ago, he was told that the Congress could not be revived in the state, but now the Congress has been rejuvenated in that state.
“Now they are saying that the next government in UP will be a government formed by the Congress only,” Rahul Gandhi said.
Indicating that the Youth Congress membership in Tamil Nadu had increased from 35,000 to 14.5 lakh after his visit to the state, Rahul said the Dravidian parties were now wondering how this has became possible.
Affirming that a similar thing would happen in West Bengal in the next four to five months, Rahul Gandhi appealed to the youths of the state to work together to fortify the organisation.
Rahul Gandhi, who dedicated his 12-minute speech to hit hard CPI(M) And We will see the change in Future there.
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Rahul Gandhi in West Bengal Again.
Rahul Gandhi will be revisiting West Bengal on Sep 14 to promote the Youth Congress membership campaign in the state, Announced by party officials .
State Congress president told media on Saturday that Rahul Gandhi(RG) will start his tour from the campus of Vishwa Bharti University at Santiniketan on Sep 14. where he will address potential candidates for youth congress elections and congressmen from Block level to village panchayats and zilla parishads.
On that day he will also have a session with youths at Basirhat and Garden Reach in the outskirts of the city.
On September 15,Rahul Gandhi will address the tea workers and tribals at Jalpaiguri, Will speak at a Scheduled Castes convention in Coochbehar and also interact with youths in South Dinajpur.
Gandhi will finish off his tour Sep 16 by meeting families of murdered Congress leaders and potential Youth Congress candidates in Howrah, besides addressing a women’s convention and then travel to Garbeta in West Midnapore district to address a Scheduled Tribes political convention and take part in the youth workers from the adjacent parliamentary constituencies.
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Being PM is not the only job in the world:Rahul Gandhi
Santiniketan (WB): Rahul Gandhi, who many believe is being promoted for country;s top political job , Today said becoming PM is not the only job in the world.
The 40-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family responded in this fashion sidestepping a pointed query on him becoming the prime minister during an interaction with students at the Visva Bharati University here.
“If I will be the prime minister of India,” he said, and added after a pause, “like that is the only job a person can do! There are many other jobs that a person can do.”
The AICC General Secretary on his maiden visit to Shantiniketan in Bolpur was asked what he would do for the job prospects of fine arts students studying classical dance in the event of his becoming prime minister and Chancellor of Visva Bharati University.
Three generations of Rahul Gandhi’s family had been Chancellors of Visva Bharati University founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, 200 km from Kolkata. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi held this position in their capacity as the country’s prime minister.
Stress should be given on fine arts studies, said Gandhi, as he arrived here to a boisterous welcome on the first day of his three-day visit to West Bengal.
Rahul Gandhi, who spent nearly one-and-half hours with the students, told them, “you can write to me or to the PMO with your suggestion how to strengthen fine arts studies.”
When another student asked him about corruption at the university,Rahul Gandhi replied, “corruption is a problem everywhere. You have to find a solution to it.”
To another question,Rahul Gandhi said he could give students a lot of work if they wished it. “If you tell me you want to work I will tell you when to do it and how to do it. Only writing letters to leaders will not do,” he said. A student from Bangladesh told Gandhi that many students from his country were eager to study at Visva Bharati but faced problems in getting a visa.
Rahul Gandhi, who reached the University in car after he flew in by a helicopter met around 1,000 students at the Rabindra Bhavan and discussed several issues with them for over an hour.
Rahul Gandhi visited Dibrugarh University,Will visit Assam Today
Dibrugarh, Sept. 23: AICC general secretary visited Dibrugarh University here this afternoon for an interactive session with the students.
The university’s students were protesting against Rahul’s visit for several reasons — because he is a Congressman, the university’s administration had not formally informed them about his visit and because he had accepted the invitation of vice-chancellor Kandarpa Kumar Deka, against whom the students have been agitating.
As Rahul, clad in a checked shirt and blue jeans, delivered his lecture inside the auditorium, the police and personnel from the elite Special Protection Group (SPG) maintained a hawk’s eye on the protesters.
In the morning, Rahul interacted with students at the Netaji Subhash Manch auditorium of Assam University at Dargakona, 25 km south of Silchar. He shared the dais with Youth Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan and university vice-chancellor Tapodhir Bhattacharjee.
Addressing the students, Rahul said they should cash in on the fact that India was a young nation. “We live for the future. We are young”, he said, asking the students to take a more proactive role in nation-building. Speaking about the “filth in the system and body politic”, he admitted, “…even I am not happy with our political system, but it must be cleaned, and cleaned by you.”
After the hourlong session, Rahul boarded his chopper for Dibrugarh. He next visited IIT Guwahati for 10 minutes and answered the students’ questions on big dams, why the system in the country does not work properly and reservation issues, among others.,
Rahul Gandhi will pay a one-day visit to Assam on Thursday during which he will interact with the students of IIT-Guwahati and Assam Central University.
Gandhi is expected to arrive around 10:30 a.m. at Silchar and fly by a chopper to the university campus, where he would interact for about an hour with around 250 students of the varsity and the students of 12 other local colleges before flying to Guwahati.
He would return to Delhi the same day.
It has been reported that the National Security Guard (NSG) personnel have arrived at both the venues to ensure that the security arrangements are in place.
NSUI President Hiddi Eden would accompany Gandhi during his visit.
Congress surfaces heat to RSS.
Pledging to fight communal and terrorist elements, the Congress today accused the RSS and its sister organisations of being involved in terrorist activities.
“Recent revelations through detailed investigations have exposed the true character of the RSS and its sister organisations. The investigations indicate the involvement of its members in terrorist activities,” said an AICC statement circulated to members at the AICC session in New Delhi.
It said the party would fight “at any cost” communal and terrorist elements, whichever source they originate from that aim at destroying the national fabric.
“The Indian national Congress will fight against all such sources that spread religious hatred, prejudice and bigotry and that seek to polarise our people along religious lines,” the statement said.
The statement is likely to be adopted at the conclusion of the one-day AICC session which began here with the hoisting of the party tricolour at the Talkatora Stadium in the cabinet.
Apparently concerned over the spiralling prices of essential commodities, the party asked the government to “redouble its efforts” to ensure that prices remain at “affordable levels”.
The Congress also put the onus of reining prices on the state governments, saying their role was “absolutely essential and critical” in this regard.
Noting that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir had deteriorated, it welcomed the appointment of interlocutors to carry forward the dialogue process with various stakeholders.
It said normalcy was being restored with the cooperation of the state government.
Expressing concern over the Maoist activities in some parts of the country, it said the extremists have caused serious law and order situation leading to senseless killing of civilians and security forces and wanton destruction of public property.
“Armed struggle against the State by any section of the society cannot be tolerated. The government should take all appropriate steps to curb it,” the statement said.
It noted that lack of development was leading to alienation of tribals and sought time-bound implementation of the integrated action plan of the government for tribal and backward areas.
The AICC congratulated Sonia Gandhi for getting elected as the party president for the fourth term.
“Under her leadership, two successive Congress-led coalition governments have been formed at the Centre.
She has injected new life and dynamism in this 125-year-old organisation through her untiring efforts and selfless work and unique qualities of sacrifice demonstrated by not assuming the highest office offered to her,” it said.
It also commended the “wise and sagacious leadership” provided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he had brought “renewed prestige” to India by ensuring sustained high economic growth amidst the global economic crisis.
The AICC also appreciated and supported the initiatives taken by the Youth Congress and the NSUI under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi “to bring about a new era of inclusive participation of youth in national service”
Rahul gandhi reached jama masjid in amethi to celebrate Bakrid.
Rahul gandhi reached jama masjid in amethi to celebrate id-ul-zaha, Normally seen in white kurja and pajayama, Rahul gandhi today was seen with a “namaji topi”.
Rahul wished one by one whoever came out from masjid for ‘Bakrid’. Congress state spokesman Akhilesh Pratap Singh reported that Rahul waited for almost half an hour to greet people at jama masjid.
During that Rahul communicated with nearby shopkeepers about how their business is doing.
Later on Rahul visited C.S.D.C (community resources development center in Lukhnow and ate food in a restaurant which is in front of Raj Bhavan.
Rahul Gandhi Could probably become the next Prime Minister.
Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee Said Rahul Gandhi Could probably become the next Prime Minister while replying to Karan Johar question at CNBC’s India’s Business Leaders Event In Mumbai on Saturday,
It is a democracy and people of India should decide.
Senior congress leader said that he would be happy if Rahul become the prime minister of India.
Refusing to Talk about the forthcoming Union Budget Mukherjee said, “ My heads will be chopped off if I give insight into budget.”
On a lighter note He replied that he can’t Sing.
“ I can’t sing. I am not even a bathroom singer I listen to Tagore (Rabindra Nath Tagore) Songs, “said Mukherjee.
He also said that he would have been teacher if he had not joined politics.
Karunanidhi says no scam in 2G and Rahul says TN will get Cong CM.
DMK president M Karunanidhi exhorted his party workers to take the message to the people that there had been no scam in the telecom sector as alleged by the opposition and the media.
There seems to be a sudden swing in the mood within the DMK. From clamouring for action, including temporary suspension of A Raja, caught in the 2G spectrum allocation scandal, party leaders are now rallying behind the former Union telecom minister in a bid to put up a strong defence for him and an united front in the runup to a crucial state election.
“With four months to go for assembly elections, the DMK leadership realises that disunity within the party could prove detrimental to our prospects. And, any demand for action against Raja could also indicate that sections think he is guilty,” pointed out a senior DMK leader.
Party sources said Raja met senior MPs from the party on Monday night at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters, to explain to them about various aspects of the spectrum issue, including allegations on estimated loss to the government exchequer. A group of MPs in turn explained to the DMK supremo that they had “verified Raja’s explanation with documents”.
Meanwhile, Raja leaves for New Delhi by a flight at 5pm on23-12-2010 Thursday. He is expected to appear before the CBI on Friday at 11am.
Kicking off his TN itinerary with an address to the party’s youth leaders at Vanagaram, a Chennai suburb, the young Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was more combative this time. “I assure you, in the coming future, the CM of Tamil Nadu will be one among the members of the Youth Congress,”’ he said to loud clapping and cheers.
After touching down at a helipad in Vanagaram around 11amon 22-12-2010, Rahul walked into the fortified venue, a marriage hall. The cadres cheered lustily when he said, “This battle to build the future of the Congress won’t be easy. Building the party, which has been out of power for 40 years, is going to take time. We should be prepared to work, especially at the grassroots.”
He expressed happiness at the “energy” he saw among Youth Congress members and said, “Youth power will play a role not only at the panchayat, but in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections as well. We need many of you at the national level.” Earlier Congress wasn’t very particular about giving importance to the youth, he said. “Now, the situation has changed. Today’s panchayat-level leaders are the future of the Congress party,” Rahul said.
“With four months to go for assembly elections, the DMK leadership realises that disunity within the party could prove detrimental to our prospects. And, any demand for action against Raja could also indicate that sections think he is guilty,” pointed out a senior DMK leader.
Party sources said Raja met senior MPs from the party on Monday night at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters, to explain to them about various aspects of the spectrum issue, including allegations on estimated loss to the government exchequer. A group of MPs in turn explained to the DMK supremo that they had “verified Raja’s explanation with documents”.
Meanwhile, Raja leaves for New Delhi by a flight at 5pm on23-12-2010 Thursday. He is expected to appear before the CBI on Friday at 11am.
Kicking off his TN itinerary with an address to the party’s youth leaders at Vanagaram, a Chennai suburb, the young Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was more combative this time. “I assure you, in the coming future, the CM of Tamil Nadu will be one among the members of the Youth Congress,”’ he said to loud clapping and cheers.
After touching down at a helipad in Vanagaram around 11amon 22-12-2010, Rahul walked into the fortified venue, a marriage hall. The cadres cheered lustily when he said, “This battle to build the future of the Congress won’t be easy. Building the party, which has been out of power for 40 years, is going to take time. We should be prepared to work, especially at the grassroots.”
He expressed happiness at the “energy” he saw among Youth Congress members and said, “Youth power will play a role not only at the panchayat, but in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections as well. We need many of you at the national level.” Earlier Congress wasn’t very particular about giving importance to the youth, he said. “Now, the situation has changed. Today’s panchayat-level leaders are the future of the Congress party,” Rahul said.
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