Kolkata, September 14
No Prime Minister can solve all the problems that the country is facing, remarked the young AICC(l) general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
In an inter-active session with the students at Rabindranath Tagore’s Visva Bharati at Santikinetan today, Rahul asked the students to get involved in political activities along with their studies as their participation was needed for building a new and prosperous India. He did not think the students’ participation in politics was wrong. The country will be better served if educated youths in large numbers join politics, he stressed.
A student asked Rahul what he would do to solve the country’s problems if he was the prime minister? “No prime minister can solve all the problems of the country”. He denied he was aspiring to become the future prime minister.
During his second round of visit to the state today, Rahul drove straight to Santiniketan after landing in the city and spent a few hours there visiting Tagore’s museum, arts gallery and other historical places. He also talked to teachers and university authorities.
He participated in an inter-active session with students where several political and academic matters figured in the discussions. He will visit different districts and hold meetings with the party men during his three-day visit.
Rahul also discussed with party men how to re-build the Congress and restore its glory.
The AICC(l) general secretary said his first and the foremost task was to re-organise the party at the grass-roots in all the states. He reiterated that the party would fight the CPM in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Bengal jointly with the Trinamool Congress.
