CPI(M) outdated, throw them out: Rahul
Headlines Today Bureau
Kolkata, September 6, 2010
Updated 15:15 IST
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched an all-out attack on the Left Front government in West Bengal, calling it an outdated ideology whose time was up.
Rahul accused the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) of swindling funds sent by the Centre and urged the youth to join the Congress and bring development to Bengal.
"The NREGA (and other) funds sent by the Centre doesn't reach you. It goes to the CPI(M) government and vanishes. This has been going on for over three decades," Rahul said.
"The poor in the state don't even have ration cards. The Bengal government is being run for CPI(M) workers, not for the poor," he said to loud cheers from the crowd.
Rahul said communism was outdated and would collapse all of a sudden in Bengal just as it did in the Soviet Union. "It (the downfall of communism) will be repeated in Bengal. And the CPI(M) knows that," he said.
The Congress leader said even communist leaders in China had written off the CPI(M) in Bengal. "When I went to China, the leaders asked me why the CPI(M) was stuck with an 80-year-old ideology," he said.
Rahul said the Congress' revival in Bengal was certain, just as it happened in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. "I was told it is impossible to revive the Youth Congress in UP and Tamil Nadu, but I went ahead. Bengal too will see such change in the coming months," he said, hinting at the 2011 assembly elections.
Rahul urged the youth of the state to join politics. "I am with you in the battle, and we will win it," he said.
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