Contest with Tharoor is for betterment of India and Congress: Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said his contest with Shashi Tharoor for the post of party president was aimed at putting forth their viewpoints for the betterment of the country and the partyKharge said this during an interaction with party delegates at Congress office here where he sought their support for the AICC presidential electionThis is an internal election It is like two brothers at home who are not fighting but placing their points of view and trying to persuade each other he saidThe Congress party veteran said the election campaign was not about what a particular candidate will do if he becomes the president of the party but what they can do togetherMy belief is What I will do is not the question The question is what we both will do together for the country and for the party this is importantLet us not talk about whether I will do this or that or talk about someone else How will you party workers and me together make the party stronger save the countrys constitution and its democracy that is the questionAlso read Rahul Gandhi should think before speaking against Savarkar says Manisha KayandeToday the countrys atmosphere is deteriorating and we have to make it stronger by peace and unity That is why Bharat Jodo yatra is on he saidKharge 80 said he would implement the Udaipur declaration of the party if he gets electedIf I get an opportunity then I will try to fully implement the Udaipur declaration because you have made the declaration after deliberations and placed a few things before the party the country I will try to take that forward and will take you alongIt is important to take everyone along I will take everyones advice and find solutions to the problems by discussing with PCCs and others It is collective leadership he addedAppealing to the delegates to support his candidature the former leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha said there was no pressure on anyone and whoever was supporting him was doing so happilyHe also said Rahul Gandhi was the only option if the party has to become stronger and powerfulWhen I met Madam Sonia Gandhi I told her if the party has to become stronger and powerful then there is no option other than Rahul Gandhi because he fights on the roads in the Parliament and now he has vowed to walk 3500 km and he has walked three statesIt is his commitment He is walking on the roads and not taking decisions in an AC chamber Thousands and lakhs of people are joining This Bharat Jodo yatra is about uniting the thinking of the people of the country and not about dividing them he saidResponding to Union Home Minister Amit Shahs charge that the Congress only talks about dividing the country Kharge said if the country is prospering today it is because of the Congress partyOur leaders have given so much to the country he saidKharge said it was Shahs habit to talk about dividing the country and not uniting it everywhere he goesWe talk about uniting the country uniting the society getting everyone together and saving the constitution so that the country functions as a democracy We believe in that and we are working for that he saidHe also asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah helped in getting the country its independenceThey were not even born then Congress party leaders like Mahatma Gandhi fought for it Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru spent nine years in jail for uniting the countryIndira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed their lives What sacrifice have you given for the country he askedIf nothing has been done in these 70 years then would there be many AIIMS so many doctors and engineers or so much public sector work They do nothing but only sloganeering dividing the people is their aim and they are doing that But we will continue to fight that the Congress leader saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever