India fatigued, asserts Rahul

NEW DELHI: The Congress today decided that it would forge workable alliances with like-minded parties as part of efforts to get battle-ready for 2019 general election, with its chief Rahul Gandhi asserting that the country was "fatigued" and only his party could show the way forward.
In his brief inaugural address, Rahul Gandhi said the country is in a way "fatigued" under the Modi dispensation and is looking for a way out. He asserted that his party alone can show the path forward.
In a scathing attack on the NDA government, he accused it of spreading hatred and anger, and failing to create jobs and address farm distress.
The Congress party alone can unite the country and show the path forward, he said.
The difference between the ruling dispensation and his party was that while they spread anger and hatred, we spread love and brotherhood", the Congress chief said.
He also said the Congress under him would take the seniors and the youth together as the tradition of the party was to embrace change without forgetting its past and legacy.
"If the youth will take the Congress party forward, the party will not move forward without the experienced leaders. So, my task is to unite the seniors and the youth, to give a new direction," he said.
The country is in a way fatigued, is looking for a way out. And I am saying this from the bottom of my heart, that only the Congress can show the path forward," he said.
Rahul Gandhi said the party's work was to unite people and the Congress's 'hand' symbol was the only symbol that can do so.
The indication of a pre-poll tie-up comes in the wake of efforts by the Congress to evolve a consensus among various opposition parties to unitedly take on the BJP.The Congress has been seeking to unite all opposition parties under one common platform to defeat the BJP in the next elections.