Firing yet another salvo at Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that the PM is scripting his own "downfall", as he has "failed" to fulfil promises made to the people.
In a pep talk at Congress executive meet in the key state of Uttar Pradesh, where Congress is reduced to fourth position, Rahul invoked Steve Jobs' efforts to revive a floundering Apple and said the party men should work in unity, as a team so that they can fill the void that will be created after the "exit" of Modi, who was "harming himself the most".
The Congress vice president said that everybody has "Congress DNA" and ideologically the party still occupies the first position, as it is not like the RSS "in which everything is decided from the top". He said that the PM has not fulfilled his poll promises and is "damaging himself" much more than the Congress could have inflicted on him.
"He has promised good days to farmers. Now, farmers are committing suicide. Wherever I go in the country, the farmers are abusing Modiji. They are not criticising but abusing. Youths are not getting jobs and despite making repeated promises thrice, the One Rank One Pension has not been given yet.
"Modi is damaging himself much more than we can together do to him. We have to make our place. Modiji is bound to go down, but when he goes, we have to fill that space. You may keep on attacking Modi, but Modi is attacking himself much more," Rahul said.
The Congress leader, who has frequently taunted the PM with his "suit-boot" barbs, had attacked Modi on Sunday over the 'Make in India' initiative, saying it was "Take in India" in reality.
Telling party workers that everybody has "Congress DNA" in their blood, Rahul said that they need to motivate people to work and fight together, and gave a message of unity to revive the party that has lost much of its base in the key Hindi belt state.
Maintaining that the Congress is different from the RSS, Rahul said, "This is not RSS. Had it been RSS, (Mohan) Bhagwat would have come and told you that the sky is black and then all of you would have echoed that the sky is black. Decisions do not percolate from the top in the Congress party."
Describing the party as a "family", Rahul said that people with different voices debate ideas and work together here. "Let there be talks between leaders and workers," the Congress leader said.
He also visited Banke Bihari temple at Brindavanbefore his interaction with the party workers at the Praitinidhi Sammelan. Talking about the party's ideology, he said the time has come to uphold the party's principles and restore their pride of place in the Uttar Pradesh. "We have to make it happen... we have to fight together," he said.
Referring to Steve Jobs, who put the right people in right place to get the best out of them, Rahul said, "Everybody has some quality and you have to extract it from them."
For the Congress the country is one family, he said, adding he feels like "being in home when he visits Kashmir and like coming to home when he visits Allahabad".
Image: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi
