New Delhi: The 137-year-old Congress finally made a generation change on Saturday, the party president Sonia Gandhi was allotted her 47-year-old son Rahul Gandhi once referred to as a ” reluctant prince”. The Gandhi was the sixth member of the Nehru-Gandhi family to lead the political party, at the time when the party faced the worst crisis, in which the BJP occupies the center stage of politics.
In his first speech as Congress President, Mrs. Gandhi again lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him taking the country back “Medieval Times”. By calling himself an idealist, Mr. Gandhi said that his politics differ from what the BJP is doing.
That, today, politics is not being used in the service of people, it is being used to crush them, not to raise them. The BJP is being spread hatred and Communalism, they break, we unite, they are igniting the fire, we immerse them, they become angry, we love. This is the difference between them and us, “he said. Mr. Gandhi also tried to remove the fear of the old guard of the party by declaring the Congress as a “grand old and young party.