New Delhi,
\nPowered by a spirited fight in Gujarat, the Congress is all set to make \u201cdebunking Gujarat development model\u201d the central part of its electoral strategy.<\/p>\n
Congress president Rahul Gandhi gave a hint of this today when he, in the first post-Gujarat verdict statement, said: \u201cGujarat gas jolted Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The people of the state do not believe in Modi\u2019s Gujarat development model. They know it\u2019s hollow. When we went to Gujarat three months ago we were told we could not match the BJP. But the people of Gujarat have shown that we can defeat Modi\u2019s anger with love.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the evening news arrived that Gandhi is visiting Gujarat tomorrow for ground-level assessment of results and for personally thanking the people for helping the Congress put up its best-ever show since 1990.<\/p>\n
The message to the Congress organistion in Gujarat is clear\u2014start preparing for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. A Congress leader associated with Gujarat affairs said, \u201cWe are going to start preparing for 2019 today. The next LS election will be a real fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rahul said Gujarat, by tempering BJP\u2019s win, had shown that the Gandhian tenets of love and compassion were still deep rooted in the state\u2019s psyche. \u201cThe people of Gujarat have shown Modi that anger will not help. Somewhere this spirit of love propagated by Mahatma Gandhi is still alive in the heart of the state,\u201d he said raising questions about PM\u2019s personal credibility and rejecting his assertions that Gujarat had voted for development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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