Latest news - Rahul Gandhi defines the Common Man

Latest news - Rahul Gandhi defines the Common Man

Congress General Secretary, Rahul Gandhi defined the Aam Aadmi or the common man during his address at the AICC Plenary Session today.He said that the Aam Aadmi is that person who doesnot have a connection to the system. Whether he is poor or rich, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian, educated or uneducated, if he is not connected to the system, he is an Aam Aadmi, he said...


Congress General Secretary further said that Aam Aadmi is the tribal boy in Nayalgiri who is thrown off his land without justice, the dalit boy in Jhansi who is forced to sit at the back of the class room. He added that she is the young professional from Bangalore who can’t get her child into a good school, or he is the university topper in Shillong who cannot get a job because he doesnot know the right people. Aam Aadmi is the farmer in Aligarh who doesnot get the price he deserves for his land or is the businessman in Hyderabad who is pushed aside because he doesnot have the right connections, he added.

He further said that Aam Aadmi is the widow in Vidarbha who despite tragedies in her family is struggling to make ends meet or is the bureaucrat whose professional future is at risk because he refuses to compromise. He is the worker who builds the metro with his blood and sweat but will never get the credit for it or is the poor carpenter from Basti living in the slums of Mumbai who did not get an education because of lack of opportunity.

Shri Rahul Gandhi said that thouth we call them the common man but in fact he is unique. He has immense capabilities, intelligence and strength. He builds the country everyday of his life and yet our system crushes him at every step, he added.

Congress General Secretary said that he may by a young politician who may have a lot to learn, but there is one thing that he is absolutely certain of and that is, nation can never be built until we start recognizing and respecting the common man. He added that we will never build a nation until we build a system in which this man’s progress is based on not who he knows but what he knows. This is the challenge of our generation, he added.