17.12.12

Congress' Campaign for Gujarat






In a veiled attack on chief minister Narendra Modi, AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi accused him of practising “politics of anger” and said it was time people switch to the power of “love”, preached by the Mahatma, to ensure all-round progress of Gujarat. 
“Common man dreams are not looked at...it is just one man’s dream that prevails in the state and who is doing politics of anger,” Gandhi said without naming the Gujarat chief minister. 
“What’s the problem here-....this one man who claims to run Gujarat and having changed the entire state is full of anger....and with anger the state cannot progress ahead,” Gandhi said, while addressing a rally ahead of the second phase of polling on December 17. The Amethi MP said it was “love of the people” that could help the state really progress and not anger. 
“This state can only progress ahead with love....a path shown by Mahatma Gandhiji...this is what I wanted to tell you..,” Gandhi said asking people to vote for a n immediate change. 
“Two out of four people who mattered the most to me in my life were snatched away by terrorists...When my grandmother and father died, I had a lot of angst in me...,” he said. “What anger does... it makes a person blind...I was like a blind man...but when I kept the anger aside I started seeing things clearly...I don’t have one bit of anger today in me..” he asserted comparing himself with the BJP strongman. “Your Chief Minister who talks about anger is wrong..you are full of love and there should be a government which has love,” Gandhi said. 
“You have your own dreams and it is you who run this state, the historical past of here has been of love..which is there in your hearts that you have expressed and have shown also,” Gandhi said in an attempt to strike a chord with the people here.
“The farmers, labourer of the state have not helped the state progress ahead…the women sitting here have done nothing, the children and youths studying… shall do nothing in future..” Rahul said, pointing out that people in the state were virtually made to feel they had no role in state’s progress.“It is only one man who does whatever happens in Gujarat,” Gandhi said, taking a dig at Modi’s autocratic style of functioning. 


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