JAMMU: Hanging an emotional chord with the individuals of Jammu and Kashmir, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Thursday stated he considers himself their soldier in New Delhi, and added his doorways are all the time open for occasion staff — “the lions of the Congress”. Taking a dig on the prime minister, Gandhi stated Modi’s physique language and confidence have drastically modified after the parliamentary ballot outcomes.
“You already know my relationship with you. It’s not a political connection. It’s a relationship of affection and that of my household’s background. My household comes out of your state,” the Chief of the Opposition in Lok Sabha instructed Congress staff right here. He was addressing them on the second and concluding day of his go to to poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir.
“So, it is best to all the time really feel that you’ve a sepoy in Delhi. I’m your sepoy. No matter you want, my doorways are all the time open for you,” he stated. “You solely have to offer me an order, and I will probably be current earlier than you,” Gandhi stated amid amid big applause.
Flanked by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Gandhi referred to occasion leaders as his ‘generals’ and the employees as ‘sepoys’. He emphasised that each have to be revered in all conditions, together with throughout alliances with different events.
In an obvious dig at former Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, with out naming him, Gandhi instructed the occasion staff, “When there was a tough time, and also you and your ideology had been below assault, you continue to fought on the bottom, preserving the flag flying excessive. A number of individuals threw down the flag and ran away. You didn’t run away. You confronted bullets, sticks, and abuses, and stood your floor firmly. I name you the lions of the Congress.” Asserting that the Congress and its staff have shaken Prime Minister Modi’s confidence, Gandhi remarked he has misplaced the confident physique language he displayed earlier than the elections.
“Congress staff have given him a lot psychological rigidity that his confidence has been badly hit. Congress staff have compelled him to bow earlier than the Structure. He isn’t the identical PM he was earlier than the elections,” he added. He affirmed that the Congress will proceed to problem the BJP throughout the nation.
“At any time when they attempt to do any mischief, they’ll discover the Congress difficult them. The Congress and its staff have saved the Structure and democracy within the nation. We are going to thwart their design. They won’t be allowed to cross their payments,” he stated.
He stated the Congress is engaged in a battle of ideologies with the BJP. “It’s a battle between the ideologies of Congress and the RSS.” On the difficulty of ticket distribution by the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, Gandhi expressed his need to see tickets being given to grassroots staff. “They need to have the chance to develop into MLAs. I wish to see them in meeting.” He additionally known as for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood on the earliest. He stated the individuals of J&Ok have gained nothing below the present regime, which has handed over all of the area’s sources to “outsiders”.
Gandhi and Kharge had been welcomed and honoured with a Dogri pagri and film of Mata Vaishnodevi.
