Congress needs to connect with voters: Maken

Senior Congress leader says party workers need to redress voters' grievances

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Ajay Maken today said there was a need to strengthen the party and admitted that they were voted out by Delhiites due to certain mistakes.

Congress leaders and workers need to redress voters' grievances and have to connect to them, Maken said, addressing a function where Ali Mehndi, the newly elected Chairman of Minority department of DPCC, took charge.

"There is need for strengthening the party along with its departments. We have to reach out to the people of every community. Due to certain mistakes, the Delhi people voted us out, but we have to work hard to bring them back. We have to redress their grievances, we have to connect to them, we have to have a dialogue with them," Maken said.

After taking over the charge, Mehndi said he will work hard to get back the minority community's support.

Apart from Maken and Mehndi, several other party leaders including Khurshid Alam, Chairman, Minority Department of AICC, and some former MLAs were also present at the function.

Alam said Minority Department is the important department of AICC, which is being run by Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains and Parsis.

"The government at Centre as well as at Delhi is being ruled presently by those people who do not believe in secularism. They want to ruin the secular fabric of Indian democracy. We need to get back the misguided youth.

"The leaders who made our Constitution were from all walks of life including Hindu, Muslim, Scheduled Caste Community and others, like Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Abdul Kalam Azad, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel," he said.