Rahul Gandhi has dubbed poll surveys predicting that Congress could get just 100 seats in Lok Sabha polls as joke. He said opinion polls are not the law and there is no question of Narendra Modi and BJP coming to power.
Holding a 'Google Hangout' with party workers, the first such interaction by any Congress leader, Gandhi also hit out at the main Opposition party over reports of an internal war within BJP over candidatures of senior leaders including Modi.
In an apparent dig at Narendra Modi, he said BJP's senior leaders are saying that every single candidate is decided by one man. With Modi being the polarising politician apparently on his mind, Gandhi said that hatred never wins in battle with love and harmony, which he described as the main idea of the Congress. Charging BJP with symbolising conservationism and status quo, he said Congress believes in revolution.
Rahul Gandhi admitted that Congress should have fought more aggressively the Opposition's strategy to stall Parliament and tried to impress upon the people that they are disrupting democracy.
He said, the entire game of poll survey is to demoralise the Congress workers, to create doubts in their mind. Claiming that Congress could get 200 plus seats, he said in 2004, every single opinion poll said Congress is going to get thrashed but Congress won that election. In 2009, every single opining poll said the same but Congress doubled its tally.
Talking to workers from Punjab, he asked them to tell people of the state that Sikh farmers are being bashed up and chased away from Gujarat, while the BJP has an alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab.
About Tamil Nadu, where Congress has failed to get any ally so far this time, Gandhi said people of the state are “tired” of the kind of politics going on there. Tamil Nadu is one of the states, where in future, Congress has a huge opportunity, he said.