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Upbeat Rahul now eyes UP Assembly election

Last Updated 16 May 2009, 20:43 IST

“My work has just begun and in the next three years we will build a new Congress. The people of UP are fed up with casteist and communal politics and want a government that works and only the Congress can give it to them,” Rahul, said in Sultanpur.

Rahul, who arrived at Sultanpur along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi, ducked a question regarding his joining the union cabinet but said that he would continue his efforts to build a ‘new congress in UP’.

He said that Congress’ victory signified ‘rejection of politics of caste and religion and acceptance of clean and honest politics, practiced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’.
Refusing to take the credit for his party’s excellent performance in UP, Rahul said that it was a ‘team work’.

Rahul praised BJP leader L K Advani for giving a ‘strong fight’ in the polls but said he differed fundamentally with Advani’s politics.  Rahul said that UP has lagged behind during the past 20 years in the successive non-congress regimes. “We will build a new UP with the help of youths,” he added.

The young leader said that the NREGA and the loan waiver schemes were a factor in Congress’ victory in the state.

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(Published 16 May 2009, 20:43 IST)

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