Acknowledging that the Congress' connection with the people has been "broken", former Congress president and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday that the party will undertake a yatra in October to re-establish and strengthen it.
Mr Gandhi said the party has to accept the reality and work hard among the people to reconnect. "We will have to accept that our connections have been broken from the masses, but the people know that it is the Congress that can lead the nation ahead," he said.
Here are the HIGHLIGHTS on Congress Chintan Shivir:
"We will overcome, we will overcome, we will overcome, underlined Sonia Gandhi at the party strategy meet in Udaipur.
Sonia Gandhi, at the party strategy meet in Udaipur, made it clear that party reforms will focus on the next general elections in 2024.
Sonia Gandhi today announced a "Bharat jodo" yatra which will run from "Kashmir to Kanyakumari" to strengthen the party. "All of us, young and old, will participate. Seniors like me will have to find a way to accommodate in this. The yatra is to highlight the day-to-day concerns of crores os people," she said.
Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday that the party will undertake a yatra in October to re-establish and strengthen it. He asserted that there is no shortcut to reconnecting with the people and the party will have to sweat it out. "Spend months, not just one or two days among farmers and labourers," he appealed to party workers and leaders.
"I have never been corrupt haven't taken any money and I am not scared and will fight," says Rahul Gandhi.
"If there is one area the BJP is better it is in communication. They have the money, etc. We have to reform our communication and connect with the people. When we aggressively change the party structure at the grassroots level we will be able to take on the RSS," said Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress has adopted the one-man-one post rule with some riders at its mega brainstorming session in Rajasthan's Udaipur. But the proposal for a Parliamentary Board to replace the Congress Election Committee -- a key demand of the rebels -- was not accepted.
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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said the discussions of the political committee, set up to deliberate key challenges facing the party and the country at the Chintan Shivir here, saw views "passionately debated" with "amicable solutions found".
A key demand of the dissenters in the party to constitute the congress parliamentary board has been accepted as a suggestion at the party's big meet in Rajasthan. The suggestion now needs the approval of the Congress Working Committee.