"If you all cooperate...we will form government in next Gujarat elections": Kharge at AICC session

Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], April 9 (ANI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appealed to the Congress party workers to stay united and cooperate so that the party can form a government in the next Gujarat elections.
"We are with the poor, minorities, backward, untouchables, Dalit. Congress is standing with people belonging to any religion or caste. If you all cooperate and be with the Congress party, then we will certainly form government in next Gujarat elections," Kharge said at the AICC session.
He also referred to the speech of party leader Rahul Gandhi.
"Rahul Gandhi explained how PM Modi, BJP and RSS are destroying the country...the ideology of Congress should be taken forward. Any institution should have manpower, mental and economic strength. We have less economic strength but high manpower strength and mental strength," he said.
He said INDIA bloc parties were united in their opposition to the Waqf legilsation.
"We have to remain united. We have to strengthen INDIA bloc," he added.
Earlier, Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP-led government of trying to control institutions.
"Their (RSS) ideology is against the Constitution. They want to end democracy. They want to control all the institutions of India and hand over the country's money to Ambani Adani... The Waqf (Amendment) Bill is an attack on the freedom of religion and the Constitution," he said.
The Congress leader also raised the party's demand for a caste census in the country and alleged that government does not want to conduct it.
"We took a revolutionary step of caste census in Telangana. A few months before that, I had asked PM Narendra Modi in the Parliament that we should get a caste census done in the country... I wanted to know who had what share in this country and whether this country truly respected the tribal, Dalit, and backward communities. PM Narendra Modi and RSS clearly refused the caste census because they don't want to reveal the share that minorities get in this country... I told him that we will pass the caste census law in the Parliament right in front of you," Gandhi said. (ANI)