Click to play videoNew Delhi: In his first political “picnic” after Gujarat, Amethi MP and Congress scion Rahul Gandhi decided to play safe in Bundelkhand.
Attacking Mayawati government for not doing enough in the area, he took refuge in his surname and past and seemed to speak in the tone of his father Rajiv Gandhi.
“My father used to say that only 15 paisa out of the rupee reaches people. After seeing the situation here, I feel that not even five paisa of a rupee is reaching the people,” he said.
Rahul, hoping where money has not reached, his party will, chose the barren, drought-hit grounds of Bundelkhand to make his party's fortunes fertile.
For a start, his solution was a new state of Bundelkhand - quite unmindful of the fact that his party is having second thoughts about carving new states.
“I think it’s easier to govern smaller states,” he reasoned.
Rahul came back to Delhi on Thursday and also came home to facing a bitter truth: Congress may not be able to do what he wants and so, predictably, the young prince has left the real decisions to his mother, party president Sonia Gandhi.
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