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Will not align with criminals and thieves, vows Rahul
Saturday February 04, 2012 10:38:46 PM,
IANS
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Varanasi: Congress
general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday asserted that he was
content with his party being out of power in Uttar Pradesh but
would not join hands with any undesirable elements.
"We will not align with criminals and thieves at any cost," he
said at an election rally in Pindra, 28 km from this eastern Uttar
Pradesh city.
"I do not mind even if you give just two or four seats to the
Congress in UP, but let me make it very clear that under no
circumstances will we make any compromises."
"My last drop of blood and sweat will be dedicated to the larger
interest of the people for whom I will always be ready to do
anything; but we have no room for goondas (goons)," he declared.
Striking an emotional chord with the gathering, he said: "I may
not be in a position to change the world but I can surely ensure
respect for the people of Uttar Pradesh," evoking resounding
applause.
Embarking on the lack of basic amenities in the state, he said:
"When I and my sister Priyanka were attending to our mother when
she was hospitalised in US recently, we saw the kind of facilities
that were available there. That set me thinking about the plight
of the people of this state when they were faced with a similar
situation."
"I want to ensure that if someone went to a hospital in UP, he
should get good treatment, if a child went to school, he should
get good education and if an unemployed man was looking for a job,
he should be able to get it in his own state and does not have to
go hundreds of miles in search of employment."
"But the tragedy is that leaders of various political parties who
have ruled UP over the past 22 years never cared to look into
these vital issues; instead they went about talking only of caste
and religion on which they thrived," he said.
In yet another bid to touch the emotions of his audience, he
added: "Behind every success of a nation lies the toil of its
people... my contribution is not even a fraction of the labour
that you people put in. After all you are the ones who feed the
entire nation."
Rahul's Saturday itinerary also included similar rallies at Sant
Kabir Nagar and Siddharth Nagar in other parts of eastern Uttar
Pradesh.
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