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Why Congress?
Managing a nation is about both leadership and values. The strength
of the Congress party, and its ability to create a new future for
Indians both rich and poor, young and old, urban and rural, and for
its men and women, lies in the extraordinary qualities of both its
leaders and the values that it espouses.
Our leaders have
had the ability to see the future. Whether it was Jawaharlal Nehru,
who had a vision of an Independent India or the young Rajiv Gandhi
who had a dream of a 21st century India, this is a party that has
always had leaders with ability too see the future. Their greatness
lay in the fact that, beyond merely crafting a vision, each of these
leaders had the ability to manage the process of driving the country
so that it was able to translate their vision in to a shared
reality.
Today every Indian can say with pride that the India
he\she is living in today is the result of the dreams and
implementation capabilities of a host of great Congress leaders, who
created modern India over the last 50 years of independence. The
vision of a 21 century where a powerful and prosperous, peaceful and
progressive united India, will be among the great global powers, is
what drives the Congress party even today. We have the blueprint
that works. It is one that has already had several elements put in
to practice. Yes, a few years may have been lost in the interim, but
today we stand once again poised to translate the next elements in
that vision into glorious future for a powerful and resurgent India.
Values, that are an integral part of the Indian civilization and
ethos, must always be part and parcel of leadership that can bind a
country together. The divisive forces that we have been witness to
in the last few years have the potential of tearing asunder the
fabric of our nation. Parties that merely attempt to focus on growth
and do not worry or even share concerns about the social
consequences of change, tend to damage the values that have built
this nation into one coherent whole. The ideology for tomorrow
that the Congress party espouses, includes both values that bind and
growth patterns that work. This is the tomorrow from the party of
tomorrow. Join us now in this endeavor.
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