The newly appointed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi
sent a strong warning in his maiden speech after taking over the new post
during the AICC session in Jaipur. Clearly it will disappoint the leaders from
other parties who join Congress at election time in the hope of getting
tickets.
Rahul Gandhi disapproved of granting tickets to such leaders
who, he said, come to the party only to contest polls and fly out after getting
defeated. "We have to change this," he told the AICC meeting in his
first speech after becoming the Vice President. Amid repeated applause from party-men, Rahul Gandhi regretted that when the time of granting ticket in
election comes, the grass-root worker is ignored and the ticket is given
following instructions from top to someone who has arrived from some other
party. He said that Congress worker should get respect and those party-men who
contest as independent after denying tickets or put up independent candidates
needed to be proceeded against.
Rahul Gandhi said that no other party has the capability and
the depth like the Congress. He said that despite these shortcomings, Congress
comes back to power because it represents "the DNA of India", a fact,
which other parties representing a particular religion or caste, fail to
understand.
