Congress committing dacoity on rights of OBCs, SCs, STs: PM
“Wherever it (Congress) can do it, it will try to loot the claims of the SCs, STs and OBCs and give them to others,” said Modi.
Newly elected Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that he considered the leaders and workers of the BJP as his brothers and sisters but does not agree with their ideology of spreading hate.
In his first speech as the party chief at the Congress headquarters here, the Gandhi scion said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believes in politics of hate and Congress was the only party that could counter it.
“We consider the BJP as our brothers and sisters, but we do not agree with them. They (BJP) crush voices but we allow them to speak, they defame we respect and defend,” the 47-year-old leader said.
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“If there is anyone who can stop what the BJP is doing, it is the workers and leaders of Congress. We are going to make Congress, grand old and young party. We will fight the politics of anger,” he added.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular, Rahul said while the Congress took India to 21st century, PM Modi was taking the country back to medieval times
“We are now being compelled to imagine that businesses can be built without harmony that only one man himself is the voice of reason,” he said referring to Modi.
“Expertise, experience and knowledge can be cast aside for personal glory,” he added.
Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took over the reins of the Congress from his mother Sonia Gandhi who held the top post for 19 years.
The party’s Central Election Authority president Mullapally Ramachandran handed over the Certificate of Election to Rahul Gandhi at around 11 am bringing the curtains down on Sonia Gandhi’s tenure.
The Gandhi scion was flanked by former PM Manmohan Singh and his mother on the state while sister Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra were present in the audience.
With no other candidate in the fray, the Gandhi scion was elected the Congress President unopposed on December 11. He had filed his nomination papers on December 4.
His elevation comes just two days before the Assembly election results of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.
The Gandhi scion had spearheaded the Congress campaign in Gujarat assembly polls and with all exit polls predicting a loss for the Congress, the celebrations are likely to be cut short.
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