Congress will do AAP bigger and better, promises Rahul Gandhi

Having suffered losses in four major states ahead of the 2014 elections, the Congress leadership put up a brave face and party vice president Rahul Gandhi credited the Aam Aadmi Party for involving people like no other party and promised that he would learn from them - and then do a better job. “We are going to do a better job than anyone in that party and in a manner that you can’t even imagine,” Gandhi said. The Congress Vice President said he believed Sheila Dikshit had delivered good governance in Delhi despite her loss and said that the party needed to move to a paradigm where people were given a voice in political parties. “I am going to put all my efforts to ensure that you get a party that lives up to your expectations,” he said. The Congress Vice President said that both parties particularly the Congress had been thinking about politics in a traditional way. [caption id=“attachment_1275175” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Rahul Gandhi said the party would learn from its losses. Image courtesy: @ANI_news[/caption] “The people have given us a message with these elections… I and the Congress party have taken this seriously,” he said. “The Congress party has the ability to stand up the expectations of the people and it will do so,” Gandhi said. The Congress Vice President said that the party has heard what the people had to say and promised that they would do whatever they could as a party and individuals to live up to people’s expectations. He refused to comment on Narendra Modi and said that the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate had his own perspective. “My focus is on how I can help the people of this country. That’s my focus… What the BJP is doing and what other people are doing is their focus. What we’re doing is our focus,” he said. Speaking before him party president Sonia Gandhi congratulated their opponents for their performance in the four states and said it meant the party would need to introspect. “Naturally this results calls for deep introspection… We have to look into the way we took or didn’t take our message to the people,” Sonia Gandhi said. She said people must have been unhappy with their governments in states and acknowledged that price rise might have been a factor in their losses. “We will introspect seriously and take all necessary steps to rectify our method of functioning,” she said. The Congress president said that the national elections will differ greatly from the state elections and these results didn’t offer any indications on how that would go. “The elections will be quite different from the state level,” she said. She was also whether the party had lost any momentum because they didn’t have a prime ministerial candidate. The party will decide on its prime ministerial candidate, she said, with Rahul Gandhi standing beside her with a cryptic smile on her face. “At the opportune time the name of the PM candidate will be announced,” she said.