CWC authorises Rahul Gandhi to take decisions on pre-poll, post-poll alliances: Sources

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been authorised by Congress Working Committee (CWC) to take decisions on pre-poll and post-poll alliance, news agency ANI reported quoting sources.

Earlier addressing the CWC, Rahul said expansion of the party vote base was one of the party's biggest tasks. 

''Expansion of our party vote base is one of our biggest tasks. In each constituency, we have to find people who have not voted for us and develop a strategy to reach out to them and win back their trust,'' Rahul Gandhi said during Congress Working Committee meeting.

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Earlier Rahul described the revamped Congress Working Committee (CWC) as a bridge between the past, present and future and asked party men to rise and fight for India's oppressed.

Chairing the first meeting of the revamped CWC after becoming president of the party in December last, he said it was an institution comprising experience and energy.

The Congress president also reminded the role of the Congress as the voice of India as also its responsibility of present and future, charging that the BJP attacks institutions, Dalits, tribals, backwards, minorities and the poor.

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, in his address assured Rahul Gandhi that he and all other Congressmen will help him in the onerous task of restoring India's social harmony and economic development.

"I assure Rahul Gandhiji that we will fully support him in his onerous task of restoring India's social harmony and economic development,'' he said, rejecting the culture of constant "self-praise and jumlas" (gimmicks), as against solid policy framework for driving the engine of growth. 

Singh said the claim of doubling farm income by 2022 will require an agricultural growth rate of 14 per cent, which is nowhere in sight.