Connect with people lost, Rahul announces Yatras from October

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the Congress party is being attacked every day because it allows conversation within the party. This party's DNA is a conversation between people of this country, Gandhi was addressing the Chintan Shivir of the CWC in Udaipur. He said. "Now, the politics of this country does not entail a conversion, expression of views and feelings. It is critical for the Union to allow states and people to have a conversation. Because the only alternative to a conversation between the people of India is violence. The mechanisms of this conversation are the institutions that Congress leaders helped create. These institutions belong to the Union of India," he said.

 He also accepted that the Congress has lost its connections with the common man and it has to fix this by reaching out to the people. “We have to revive our connection with people and need to accept that it was broken down. We will strengthen it, this will not happen with any short-cut, it requires hard work… The Congress will take out a nationwide yatra in October to strengthen connections with people," Gandhi said. Attacking the Centre, the former Congress chief said conversations are not allowed in India today. “We see conversations being muzzled and we do not understand its consequences.” "Pegasus is not a software, it is a way to silence the political class of the country, a way to strangle political conversation," he added.

Congress leadership conducted the final round of deliberations to usher organisational reforms and articulate the party's position on key issues and challenges confronting it and the country at a meeting of the CWC. Around 400 leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, attended the Chintan Shivir held in the wake of the party's five-state defeat.