Rahul Gandhi: We should be careful in ticket distribution for elections

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.