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     Gusagusa Comedian Username: Gusagusa Post Number: 1964 Registered: 04-2012 Posted From: 182.73.170.2 Rating: N/A |
Sheela Bhatt The Congress vice president made a political speech to the mandarins of corporate India. He charmed them with his good intentions but left them unsure with his ability to get things done. Sheela Bhatt analyses the Congress scion's address at the CII. There was a fantastic mismatch between Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and the audience that consisted of industrialists, senior officers of the government, executives of corporate India and many small and medium scale entrepreneurs who were looking for the young leader to spell out an action programme for India's future. Rahul Gandhi's speech didn't address the issues that corporate India wanted to listen to. The second most powerful Indian didn't match their expectations. If you hear his speech carefully it seems he never wanted to. Rahul spoke mostly on non-economic issues, he wasn't business-like and he stuck to his politics that talked about 'inclusive growth'. Without naming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, he hit him on his political plank when he said, "Harmony and development pre-supposes development of all and exclusion of none. Dalits, minorities, deprived people, destitutes and women are all important links in our societal structure and we have to reach out to them with compassion and empathy." | ||
| Gusagusa Comedian Username: Gusagusa Post Number: 1962 Registered: 04-2012 Posted From: 182.73.170.2 Rating: N/A |
The Congress on Thursday brushed aside comparisons between Rahul Gandhi [ Images ] with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi [ Images ] saying only those interested in propping up the Bharatiya Janata Party [ Images ] leader indulged in such acts. Click here! On Gandhi's speech at the Confederation of Indian Industry where he spoke about the need to bring the poor and the marginalised into the political processes, Congress spokesman P C Chacko said people heard what they have been trying to listen to for long. "We have been trying to listen something that we heard today. People are happy, they feel somebody is speaking of their feelings. Should we not appreciate that?" he said. To questions on Gandhi's comparison with Modi, Chacko said the Congress scion had shown through his speech that nobody can be compared to him. "With one single appearance in public today, Rahulji has shown that nobody can be compared with him... Rahulji's vision and Rahulji's ideas, I don't think Modi or anybody can come nearer to that and comparisons are done by someone who is interested in propping up Modi," he said. On BJP's contention that Gandhi did not refer to steps for tackling inflation and corruption, Chacko said that was the job of the prime minister and the finance minister. "The prime minister has said how poverty can be eradicated, how growth can be attained, how current account deficit can be controlled, how we are going to achieve 8 percent growth rate in the next two years," he said. "Rahulji said something more basic. It is unfortunate that some people cannot understand that. The BJP may take time to analyse Rahulji's speech," Chacko said. "The common man understands empowering people and inclusive growth. But people who are worried about the next election and who will become the next prime minister may not," he said. |
