Rahul Gandhi speaks to the press in ,orissa (part III )

Added: Mar 12, 2008

From: pressbriefin

Duration: 5:51

Camp: Bhubaneshwar (Orissa) Date: 10th March 2008 www.pressbrief.in " The term Bharat Darshan is a phrase coined by my friends in the media, not by myself. To me the Orissa tour and all such other tours are a journey in understanding and getting close to the people. I don't think the terminology that is being used in the media is correct. So "The discovery of India tour", I don't see it as that for me. It is just learning, understanding and conversing with the people of Orissa. It will continue doing it for the rest of my life. " When asked for his views on the Marathi, non Marathi controversy in Maharasthra , Rahul Gandhi said, " We as a party believe that all Indian's rich or poor are same. He is first an Indian. So every Indian has a right to travel to any other part of the country." " We can sit around here and blame the British, blame the congress, blame somebody else. I am not here to blame anybody. What I am trying to say here is that there are certain issues that need to be resolved, whoever resolves them. The state government today is in the best position to resolve those issues. I think there is lot of work that has to be done here. There is lot of work that the state government has to do here and there is lot of work that the central government can help with. So I am not here to say, xyz is to blame for this situation. That's for other people to do. I am here to try and see what the central government can do to help Orissa and urge the state government to do it's bit as well." "The central government can provide funds, central government can provide programs. The Orissa government has to deliver those funds and has to deliver those programs. According to the constitution the central government does not have jurisdiction in certain areas which the state government has. " In the end, on being asked if the failure of delivery system bothered him, considering that his father Rajiv Gandhi too had faced a similar problem Rahul Gandhi said that if it did he wouldn't be here.

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