Party must work like Apple and not RSS: Rahul Gandhi

It seems Congress party is already testing itself in UP waters and assessing the party’s strategy for Uttar Pradesh assembly election 2017. For this, Congress party’s vice-president Rahul Gandhi is pepping up his party workers to fight tooth and nail in the state elections. In one such attempt, Gandhi urged his partymen to imbibe the ‘team culture’ of Steve Jobs’ Apple.

Gandhi, who is looking forward to regain lost ground in UP, also attacked RSS, saying Congress party workers should shun rigid hierarchies like the RSS.

Gandhi, in his speech at a chintan shivir in Mathura said, "Party must work like Steve Jobs' Apple and be open to all opinions and not just some leaders. We (Congress) allow people to have different ideologies, unlike the RSS."

Gandhi is in Mathura to assess the Congress party’s approach towards the forthcoming assembly polls in early 2017.

"The Congress party is not like the RSS which guides the government. Every member's voice is heard here unlike what happens under (RSS chief) Mohan Bhagwat," stated Gandhi in party’s first major program after it was sent packing in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections with securing only two of the total 80 seats in the state.

Son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, urged Congress members to work as a family. He said, "Earlier, I used to see you all like an army, but now I see you as my family members and we have to work together, take care of each other as family members."

He also launched a scathing attack on PM Narendra Modi. "Modiji is in a self-destruct mode. Even if we all tried, we would not be able to harm him as much as he is doing himself,” he said.

Recently at a farmers’ rally, Rahul had promised not to let the controversial land bill pass, saying the PM's "Make in India" campaign was actually "Take in India" and had "no place for farmers and labourers".