Rahul Gandhi says Modiji is in a self-destruct mode

Janjivan Bureau
Mathura: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday addressed Chintan Shivir of Congress workers, which is the party’s first major program to deliberate on the issue of toning of the outfit after the 2014 Lok Sabha polls that saw Congress securing just two of the total 80 seats in the backdrop of a Narendra Modi wave. Attacking PM Narendra Modi, said that ‘Modi had said don’t be scared, achche din will come, now farmers are committing suicide.’
“Farmers are not criticising Modi, but abusing him. “Modiji is attacking himself,” the Cong vice-president said.
Continuing his attack on the PM, the Congress leader said: “Modiji is in a self-destruct mode. Even if we all tried, we would not be able to harm him as much as he is doing himself.”
“All party workers have Congress in their DNA,” Rahul Gandhi said. “I don’t see myself as your leader, but as part of a family,” Rahul added.
“All party workers are like my family, and no one can be removed from a family,” Rahul Gandhi said. “We accept everyone’s opinion, whether we agree or not,” the Congress vice-president added.
Rahul Gandhi also urged his partymen to imbibe the ‘team culture’ of Steve Jobs’ Apple and shun rigid hierarchies like the RSS in its bid to regain lost ground in UP.
“Party must work like Steve Jobs’ Apple and be open to all opinions and not just some leaders. We (Congress) allow people to have different ideologies, unlike the RSS,” the Congress leader told his party members at a chintan shivir in Mathura.
Rahul Gandhi is in the Mathura to assess the party’s strategy in the state which goes to assembly polls in early 2017.
Criticising the Modi government “The Congress party is not like the RSS which guides the government. Every member’s voice is heard here unlike what happens under (RSS chief) Mohan Bhagwat,” Gandhi said,
Urging his partymen to work as a family, Gandhi said: “Earlier, I used to see you all like an army, but now I see you as my family members and we have to work together, take care of each other as family members.”