We will make a comeback: Digvijay
Hyderabad, Aug 24 (INN): AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh has advised Congress workers to prepare for a stormy comeback in near future. Addressing the plenary session of two-day workshop that began here at Sri Indu Engineering College at Ibrahimpatnam here on Sunday, Digvijay Singh reminded the Congress workers that the party had made a comeback after facing defeats in 1977 and 1994 elections.
Asking the workers to gear up for the GHMC elections, he advised them to keep a close watch on the issues being confronted by the people. He said that the Congress party would give a tough fight in Medak bye-elections and
municipal elections to be held in GHMC, Warangal and Khammam in near
future.
He also dismissed the media reports of Congress party's possible tie-up in Medak bye-elections. He assured that youth and women would be given priority in allocation of party tickets.
Digvijay Singh said that the Congress membership drive would be completed by December 31 and party's organisational elections will be held in July 2015. He said that the Congress party would play the role of a constructive opposition and would pressurise the TRS Government to fulfill the promises that it made with the people.
The AICC General Secretary asked the Congress workers to introspect why the party lost the elections despite giving Telangana. He admitted that the Congress party failed to convey the message to the people that it was AICC President Sonia Gandhi who granted statehood to the Telangana region. He reminded that it was the Congress party which spearheaded the Telangana movement since beginning. He said unlike other parties, the Congress did not went back on its promise of giving
Telangana.
Digvijay Singh also made a scathing attack on the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre. Without naming any organisation, he said that the ideology which killed Mahatma Gandhi is now trying to downsize Pandit Nehru while comparing him with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He said although Sardar Patel too was a Congressman and a close friend of Pandit Nehru.
He also described the much talked Gujarat Model as fake. He said Narendra Modi came to power on the basis of lies and false propaganda. Criticising the Prime Minister, he said Modi has been inaugurating the projects, which were originally launched and completed by Congress Governments, and giving an impression as if he finished them in the last 60 days of his regime.
News Posted: 24 August, 2014
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