Not obsessed with PM’s job: Rahul Gandhi
February 6th, 2012 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
Varanasi, Feb 6 (IANS) Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Monday said he wasn’t running for the prime minister’s post and his job was to stay connected with people.
“Rahul Gandhi’s obsession is not to be PM. Rahul Gandhi’s obsession is to work for the people,” the Congress general secretary told reporters on the last day of campaigning for the first of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh polls due to begin Wednesday.
Without naming him, the Gandhi scion hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran L.K. Advani saying some senior politicians were obsessed with prime ministership.
He, however, said Advani was committing the “crime” of promising something to people that he won’t be able to deliver.
“He (Advani) is not listening to the people. He is trying to tell people that he will do something that he won’t. But I don’t do that,” Gandhi said.
He accused the BJP leader of scuttling the Lokpal bill in parliament.
“Giving constitutional status to the Lokpal was India’s idea,” Gandhi said, alleging that the BJP opposed it thinking that this was Congress’s idea.
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