AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh has advised Congress workers to prepare for a stormy comeback in the near future.
Addressing the plenary session of the 2-day workshop that began at the Sri Indu Engineering College at Ibrahimpatnam on Sunday, Singh reminded the Congress workers that the Party had made a comeback after facing defeats in the 1977 and 1994 elections.
Asking the workers to gear up for the GHMC elections, he advised them to keep a close watch on the issues being confronted by the people.
He said that the Congress Party would give a tough fight in the Medak by-elections, and in the municipal elections to be held for the GHMC, and the Warangal and Khammam corporations, in the near future.
He also dismissed media reports of possible tie-ups by the Congress Party in the Medak by-elections.
He assured that youth and women would be given priority in allocation of Party tickets.
Digvijay Singh said that the Congress' membership drive would be completed by December 31, and that the Party's organisational elections would be held in July 2015.
He said that the Congress would play the role of a constructive Opposition, and would pressurise the TRS government to fulfill the promises that it had made to the people.
The AICC General Secretary asked the Congress workers to introspect over why the Party had lost the elections despite giving Telangana.
He admitted that the Congress Party failed to convey the message to the people that it was AICC President Sonia Gandhi who granted statehood to the Telangana region.
He reminded people that it was the Congress which had spearheaded the Telangana movement since the beginning. And that unlike other parties, the Congress did not go back on its promise of giving Telangana.
Digvijay Singh also made a scathing attack on the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.
Without naming any organisation, he said that the ideology which killed Mahatma Gandhi was now trying to downsize Pandit Nehru by comparing him with Sardar Vallabhai Patel. He said that Patel too was a Congressman, and a close friend of Pandit Nehru.
He also described the much-talked-about Gujarat model as fake. He said that Narendra Modi had come to power on the basis of lies and false propaganda.
Criticising the Prime Minister, he said that Modi had been inaugurating projects which were originally launched and completed by Congress-led governments, and giving an impression of his having finished them in the 60 days of his regime. (INN)