“This resolution, titled ‘Why Congress needed in Gujarat’, will outline party’s strategy to get back to power, the issues faced by people, economic policies that we will implement and what we can do for the students, traders, farmers, labourers, middle class and industrialists, and not just for one or two crony capitalist friends, of the state,” the Congress leader said.Seeking to clear the party’s stand on industrialists, Ramesh said the party was always in support of genuine businessmen, especially those running small and medium enterprises, but “not one or two corporates who get all the benefits.””All the large factories in Gujarat were established during the Congress rule. It was Congress which promoted the industrial sector in Gujarat,” he said.According to Ramesh, 80 per cent of the country’s stainless steel units are in Gujarat, but one third of them have now been shut because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not impose any restrictions on the Chinese imports.”This is also an important issue we want to highlight,” he added.”If you see the statistics of the social sector such as education and health, Gujarat, despite being a developed state, is behind states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka” he claimed.He said it was for the first time such a state-centric resolution was being moved for discussion in the AICC session.”In our 140 year history, this is happening for the first time when we are bringing a state specific resolution during an AICC session. The motto of this resolution is ‘Nutan Gujarat, Nutan Congress’,” Ramesh said.Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been under BJP rule since 1995.In the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections, the Congress won only 17 of the 182 seats in the state.But the party’s strength in the House came down to 12 after the resignation of five MLAs.
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