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Says will answer if I don’t stand for polls

KANYAKUMARI (TN),

SEP 9 (PTI): Keeping cards close to his chest, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he has made the decision whether he wants to become the next party president or not and asserted he will give his reasons if he does not contest the upcoming elections.

Gandhi was asked a slew of questions at a press conference on whether he would assume the mantle of the party president and he repeatedly said he would give an answer if he does not enter the fray, indicating that the likelihood of him sticking to his stance of not taking up party chief’s post is more. He also said the Bharat Jodo Yatra will help in forging Opposition unity even though that is a separate exercise.

It is the responsibility of the entire Opposition to come together and discussions are in progress, he added.

The KanyakumariKashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra of the Congress began on Wednesday.

Gandhi said he is not leading the yatra but is only participating in it.

Asked if he would become the Congress president, he said, “Whether I become president or not, this will become very clear when the presidential elections of the Congress party take place.”

“Wait till that time when that time happens you will see and if I don’t stand, you can ask me ‘why didn’t you stand’ and I will answer the question for you,” Gandhi told reporters.

He, however, asserted that he has “very clearly” decided what he is going to do.

“There is no confusion in my mind about what I am going to do,” he asserted.

On being pressed on the issue by reporters, Gandhi reiterated that the election of the Congress president is going to happen and when that takes place, there will be clarity.

The president’s election will take place and your questions will be answered, he told reporters.

Gandhi had resigned as the Congress president in 2019 taking moral responsibility for the party’s poll drubbing in the Lok Sabha elections. Sonia Gandhi was appointed as the interim Congress president after Rahul Gandhu refused to withdraw his resignation.

Nominations for the Congress president’s election will begin on September 24 and will end on September 30, and in case of a contest the election will be held on October 17 and the counting on October 19.

The former Congress president also responded to the BJP over its ‘Parivar Bachao’ remark, saying the yatra is being undertaken to undo the damage done by the BJP-RSS of spreading hatred in the country.

He said everybody has an opinion, the BJP has one and so does the RSS.

“They are free to have. For us in the Congress, this is a journey and an attempt at understanding what is going on in India and an attempt at undoing the damages that have been done by BJP and RSS,” he said.

Responding to a question on leading the yatra, Gandhi said to put it in prospective, the Congress has decided to do the padyatra across the country and as a member of the party and a person who agrees with its ideology, he is participating it.

“I don’t see any contradiction in my participation in this yatra,” Gandhi said.

On whether the yatra will strengthen the Congress and lead to its revival, Gandhi said the goal of the march is to connect with the people, counter the “damage that the RSS-BJP has done to the country and the hatred they have spread”.

“Now, if the Congress party benefits from the yatra, that is good,” he added.

Asked if the battle of ideologies he often talks about has entered a decisive phase, Gandhi said this battle has been going on for a couple of thousand years now between two different visions.

Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI, SEP 9 (PTI):

The BJP on Friday cited the Congress’ poll losses and exodus of its leaders to claim that its conversation with the masses and its own members has broken down as it took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi for his criticism that conversation in the country has stopped under the Modi government. BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is all about launching Gandhi as a contender for the prime ministerial face in the Opposition at a time when many other parties are flexing muscles and visiting Delhi, an apparent reference to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

“He is making claim to be on the list of prime ministerial aspirants in 2024,” Poonawalla told reporters.

Attacking Gandhi, he said the Congress has lost two Lok Sabha polls and most of the state assembly polls on his watch, “showing that its conversation with people has broken down”.

“Forget about uniting India as it is already united, he should try to unite the likes of Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari with the Congress”, the BJP leader said. While Azad has quit the Congress, many other senior leaders, including Sharma, Tharoor and Tewari, have sought an organisational overhaul of the party for its revival.

Sardar Patel had united the country, and the ideals of the likes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose have kept its people united, Poonawalla said. He also slammed the Congress, claiming that none of its big leaders have welcomed the installation of Bose’s statue at India Gate after Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled it on Thursday and also inaugurated Kartavya Path.

The Congress had also criticised the Statue of Unity, which is dedicated to Patel, he said, alleging that it is “narrow-minded” and is unable to come out of its “slave” mindset dedicated to a family. Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri also used the route of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ to take a dig at the Congress over the difference in fuel prices in BJPruled states and oppositionruled states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

“It (Congress) can take a leaf out of the common citizen’s book by refuelling in BJP served states before entering states which have turned a blind eye to fuel price reduction. For example, there’s a difference of as much as Rs 14.5 per ltr between Telangana & J&K,” he tweeted.

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Flood situation in certain parts of Karnataka still grim: Official

A woman uses a makeshift raft to cross the waterlogged Munnekolala slum area due to overflowing of the Varthur lake, following heavy monsoon rains in Bengaluru. (PTI) BENGALURU, SEP 9

(PTI): The flood situation remained grim in certain parts of north Karnataka following torrential rains.

Many rivers, rivulets and streams were in spate on Friday as water was released from the Tungabhadra Dam, sources said.

According to sources, water-level rose in Hirehalla rivulet, trapping five farmers on an island in Koluru village. The farmers had gone to remove the pump-set when suddenly the waterlevel increased and they got marooned. Soon, the others informed the police, which sent a team from the fire and emergency services.

The team rescued the five and brought them to the safety.

In Vijayapura district, a bridge was washed away and some villagers went there after learning that it had developed cracks and may not withstand the flow in the Sogli rivulet.

The bridge was connecting Sogli with Mookihal in Taalikote Taluk. Reports said onions grown in a large swathe of land in the Bagalkote district were washed away due to floods.

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