: Rahul must go beyond rhetoric, offer credible vision for 2024 (IANS Column: FairPoint) #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics By Deepika BhanLeading a Yatra with emotional and idealistic talks and steering

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Rahul must go beyond rhetoric, offer credible vision for 2024 (IANS Column: FairPoint) #IndiaNEWS #National ,Politics
By Deepika BhanLeading a Yatra with emotional and idealistic talks and steering a party to the polls are two entirely different ball games. Ultimately, all that matters is the vote-winning ability. Has Rahul Gandhi finally arrived and will the Congress rise up to be the fulcrum of the Opposition?
The Bharat Jodo Yatra was conceived by the Congress to do just this. But mere rhetoric cannot get the magic numbers to lead Parliament or any Assembly. What is needed is a plan, rather a vision that can put an alternative before the people.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra had moments of eloquence, photo-ops, juicy quotes, but ended up more as a marathon than a political rally with a message and a part of a larger vision. The rally was more about anti-Modism than providing an alternative plan to the BJP.
This has continued after the Yatra also and become all the more direct, as was seen during the motion of thanks to the Presidents Address in Parliament.
Making a monster out of Modi may be lauded by his close supporters and coterie, but this is not the strategy to win over people. Perhaps the Congress can take the cue from Arvind Kejriwal, who no longer makes personal attacks against PM Modi, but has successfully demolished the BJP in Delhi and has crept up in Gujarat too.
What the nation needs is a working plan to address the issues. Growing unemployment and inflation are the two major problems affecting the people directly. Raising the issues is important for the opposition, but what is the working plan to address the issues?
Almost all the neighbouring countries are failing and in a bad state. Even the European countries, the US and others are under immense economic strain and so is China also. In this scenario, how can India be insured? The opposition, and especially the Congress has to make a blueprint. Similar is the case with issues like security, law and order, health, etc.
If the Congress and the rest of the Opposition want to take Modi head on, then they need a matching charismatic leadership and a vision for overall growth and peace. The grand old party needs to unveil the vision to address peoples issues and take the country forward. It needs to come out with a credible long-term plan and not hang out with the rhetoric-laden short strategies.
There is still a long way to go after the 4,000 km Bharat Jodo Yatra for the Congress, which sought to rekindle itself and tried to prove that it is the principal opposition to the BJP.
The party claims that the Yatra has done the necessary work to unite the country, which it says has been divided by the BJPs religious polarisation, and given a new image to Rahul Gandhi. His tagline opening the shop of love in the market of hatred, was propagated by the party and his supporters in the hope of sweeping the people off their feet.

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