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New Delhi, May 15: Former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday that the party will undertake a yatra in October to re-establish and strengthen it.
He also claimed that the Congress is being attacked because it allows dialogues within the party. The Congress leader was addressing at a Congress Working Committee (CWC) Chintan Shivir in Udaipur. He also acknowledged that the Congress has lost touch with the average citizen and that this must be addressed by reaching out to them.
“We have to revive our connection with people and need to accept that it was broken down. We will strengthen it, this will not happen with any short-cut, it requires hard work… The Congress will take out a nationwide yatra in October to strengthen connections with people,” he said.
Attacking the centre he said, “Pegasus is not a software, it is a way to silence the political class of the country, a way to strangle political conversation.”
It is very important that we limit the number of family members that are involved in our organization, & let them work, develop & them let them join the org. But we must not have a situation where 5-7 members of a family are in the org: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pic.twitter.com/7DuuJsVlIW
— ANI (@ANI) May 15, 2022
At a meeting of the CWC, the Congress leadership held the final round of debates to bring in organisational reforms and define the party’s position on major issues and challenges facing it and the country. The designated panels constituted for the purpose presented their recommendations to the Congress president, which would be given to the CWC for final approval after the two-day deliberations on organisational, political, economic, agricultural, social justice, and youth-related concerns.
According to Gandhi, there is a fear that the demographic dividend may turn into a demographic tragedy, and that the BJP government is to blame. He claimed that the Congress, on the other hand, has always given a safe and secure environment for people to debate.
Even though it won multiple elections, including the two general elections in 2004 and 2009, the leaders at the Chintan Shivir questioned the electronic voting machine (EVM) and its suspected interference.
