irony alert indeed. if merit were the criterion, this fellow would not even be, as the saying goes, "elected to municipal dog-catcher in palo alto". thank you, shahryar.
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From: Shahryar
Irony alert...
| Saturday, November 17, 2007 4:43:00 PM |
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| Let merit rule, responds Rahul |
| Javed M Ansari |
| The 37-year-old says youngsters bring in passion and energy into the Congress party NEW DELHI: Congress party's heir-apparent Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the party should be relevant to a broad range of young Indians and become "meritocratic" in which progress is linked to performance along with accountability. Making his debut at the AICC session after becoming general secretary on a day when speakers starting from prime minister Manmohan Singh to external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to others praised him, he made a passionate appeal to the youth to join the Congress to build institutions are worthy of their dreams and capabilities. In a short speech that was lustily cheered by the gathering of Congress members that included his mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Singh and Union ministers, chief ministers and leaders from various parts of the country, the 37-year-old leader said wherever he went in his recent tours, he was asked two questions by the youth and members of the NSUI and Youth Congress. The non-party youth wanted to know how they could join politics and serve the country, while the party youth asked him how do they progress in an organisation? "These two questions touch at the heart of what needs to be changed," he said. "If we are to truly become an organisation that represents the youth of our country, if we are to truly develop leaders of whom this nation can be proud, we need to do two things. The first is to build an organisation that is open and relevant to a broad range of Indians who believe in our values and seek to serve the nation. The second is to build a meritocratic organisation. Young people bring tremendous passion and energy into our organisation. We must see to it that they are accountable. It is our duty to ensure that their progress is linked to their performance." Rahul made a brief ten-minute speech, first in Hindi and then in English that outlined his vision for the party. He was welcomed with a huge garland by Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit. |
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