By IANS,
New Delhi: Who is an ‘aam aadmi’ (common man), the focal point of development programmes of the Congress party and its United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government?
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi identified some of them in his speech at the Congress plenary session here Sunday as:
* He is the tribal boy in Niyamgiri (Orissa) who is thrown off his land without justice
* The Dalit boy in Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) who is forced to sit at the back of the class room.
* She is the young professional in Bangalore who can’t get her child into a good school.
* He is the university topper in Shillong who cannot get a job because he doesn’t know the right people.
* He is the farmer in Aligarh who does not get the price he deserves for his land.
* He is the businessman in Hyderabad who is pushed aside because he does not have connections.
* She is the widow in Vidarbha (Maharashtra), beset with tragedy in her family, struggling to make both ends meet.
* He 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.
* He is the poor carpenter from Basti (Uttar Pradesh), living in the Mumbai slums, who did not get an education because of the lack of opportunity.
“We call him the common man, but in fact he is unique,” said Rahul.
“He builds this country every day of his life and yet our system crushes (him) at every step,” Rahul said amidst huge applause by the delegates.