Cong will rise like phoenix: Babbar
Monday, 09/06/2014
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Congress leader Raj Babbar today praised Amritsar voters for having elected a leader of the stature of Capt Amarinder Singh as Member of Parliament (MP). After paying obeisance at the Golden Temple, he addressed a press conference at the office of the District Congress Committee here.
On the humiliating defeat of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, he said the UPA-II government initiated several pro-poor policies, but could not educate the people about the benefits.
An optimistic Babbar claimed that "the Congress, like the phoenix, would rise from the ashes."
He refused to comment on AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi. On AAP's success in Punjab, he said the Punjabis were known for taking risk by opting for anything new. "That is why the Punjabi-dominated Delhi voted for AAP," he said.
On the way forward for the Congress, he said the party needed to adopt the Amritsar model in the rest of the country.
