Congress needs to change, the process has begun: Rahul Gandhi

Earlier in the day, Gandhi said  he was not in favour of family members of politicians getting party tickets to contest polls.

“I am not in favour of giving tickets to family members of Congress leaders and want to change this trend,” he said during an interaction with representatives of nine Autonomous Councils at the Karbi Anglong Sports Association stadium at Diphu.

People should elect their own representatives, he said adding he had already started the process in this direction. In Guwahati, he said that the party also needed to give more power to the people, particularly to women.

“I want to empower women. Here at the rally, I am seeing more men than women but in future, I want to see more or equal women in future. In the next five years, we will strive for 50 per cent representation for women in Parliament and all assemblies,” he added.

He also said that he did not want power; power should be given to people to do development work. There were two types of leaders: one who gave power to people and the other wanted power from the people.