Rahul Gandhi asks UP Congressmen to strengthen party at grassroot level

While the Congress party has been preparing itself for the 2014 Lok Sabha poll battle, party Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged Congress workers to strengthen the organisation at the grassroot level in Uttar Pradesh.

Rahul Gandhi held a review meeting to take stock of the party's poll preparations in the state. Congress poll managers apprehend that there is a well-thought out attempt by the BJP to polarise elections in the state, where the Ram Temple issue had once catapulted the BJP to limelight. Congress leaders feel that the party should get its act together to regain the lost glory in the state. Under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, the last Lok Sabha elections had given hopes for revival of the organisation as it secured as many as 22 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats.

In his meetings with the AICC general secretary in-charges of states, chief ministers or CLP leader and PCC chiefs of states, Rahul Gandhi had earlier directed them to fill up a form listing the number of meetings, they hold at the block and district levels. The Congress Vice President reviewed the work done on the basis of that format today. Besides, Uttar Pradesh, he also reviewed the party preparations in the Congress-ruled Haryana. AICC general secretary in-charge of organisations Janardan Dwivedi and Congress President Sonia Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel participated in both meetings. AICC general secretary in-charge for Uttar Pradesh Madhusudan Mistri, PCC chief Nirmal Khatri, CLP leader Pradip Mathur besides AICC secretaries in-charge of the state attended the meeting on Uttar Pradesh.

Congress vice President Rahul Gandhi meets President

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Monday had a luncheon meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee. Mukherjee, who will be completing his first year in the Rashtrapati Bhavan on July 25, has been holding interaction with the top brass of various political parties ever since he assumed the country's top office last year. Rahul Gandhi's lunch with the President on Monday happened days after the Congress Vice President attended a meeting of the party's Core Group, considered to be an interface between the party and the government, for the first time.

 Soon after becoming President, Mukherjee had invited Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her entire family including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Robert Vadra for dinner in July last year.  Besides, the President has been regularly interacting over lunch and dinner with top political leaders of all other parties as well.  Rahul Gandhi shared warm relations with Mukherjee and had gone to greet him at his residence immediately after his becoming President.
 Rahul Gandhi heads a special group set up by the party for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Rahul Gandhi attends Congress Core Committee meeting on Telangana

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi attended the Congress Core Committee meeting for the first time on Friday as the top leadership held deliberations to take a concrete view on the Telangana issue.

This is the first time, Rahul Gandhi is attending a meeting of the Congress Core Group as party Vice President. Rahul Gandhi also heads a special group set up by the party for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress Vice President had been organising regular meetings of party leaders of states in AICC to prepare the state units for the polls. On Friday also he held consultations with leaders of poll-bound Rajasthan at the AICC headquarters.

The Congress core group is an interface between the party and the government and is chaired by party president Sonia Gandhi, while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidamabaram, Defence Minister A K Antony, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and the Congress President's political secretary Ahmed Patel are its members.

The group usually meets every Friday at the Prime Minister's official residence and formulates opinion on key issues confronting the government.

Rahul Gandhi: Free the state of U.P from punctured Cycle and currency eating Elephant

Campaigning for the upcoming assembly polls starting from 8th February 2012 All India congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi urged the people while addressing an election rally at Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh to remove the punctured cycle and money eating elephant and elect a pro-poor Congress Government for a better future of the state. He declared that he has come to U.P not to waste time but to bring in positive changes in the state..

The Congress General Secretary repeated that the 22 years misrule by the non-Congress Governments in UP dragged the state backwards. Rahul Gandhi added that the state needs a government that works for all caste, religion, aam aadmi, poor, minorities, dalits and adivasis and only Congress can provide it.

He reminded the gathering of the Congress promise of government of aam admi. “During the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in 2004 while other parties made a number of hollow promises Congress had only promised a government of aam aadmi that works for poor, farmers, minorities, dalits and adivasis and we delivered it”.

Taking a dig at BJP he said, “The BJP and NDA brought out a slogan India Shining. When asked about the origin of the slogan their senior leader said that they picked it from a television advertisement. They did not go to people, talked to them or enquired about their problems, still believed blindly that India was shining.”

Rahul Gandhi assured that a Congress Government will ensure to put the state back on the track of development.

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