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| Rahul marches to new beat, |
| Rahul marches to new beat, Cong struggles to keep pace
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| INDIA
, 15-October-2009
3:51:40 AM |
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As AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi seeks to capture the imagination of the Gen Next with his out-of-the-box and somewhat iconoclastic approach to politics and governance, the 124-year-old Indian National Congress, it seems, is finding it difficult to keep in step.
Last week, Rahul’s attribution of Naxalism to lack of development and states’ inability to reach out to people, for instance, only reiterated the Congress’s long-held stance on this issue that invariably bracketed the law and order aspect with socio-economic problems at its roots. The party’s thinking was often encapsulated by Sonia Gandhi’s description of Naxalites as “misguided youth”.
Barely 48 hours after Rahul pronounced the party line on this issue, the Congress made a significant shift de-coupling the law and order aspect from the socio-economic aspect and recommending “firm” action against those who believe in violence “and nothing else”.
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