Hon'ble Prime Minister &
Colleagues
We meet at a moment of great significance and a
time of great responsibility and of course of
great satisfaction. After many years our party
has emerged with a clear mandate. With our
pre-poll allies, we have come close to achieving
a majority in the Lok Sabha. We are grateful for
the confidence that the people have once again
reposed in us and we thank them.
This would not have been possible without the
hard work of our candidates and our party
workers at all levels. I am grateful to them
all. I congratulate them and would like to say
how much I appreciate their sincerity and
dedication.
The election is now behind us and hard work must
begin. We can now start to restore the Congress
Party to its former historical role as the party
of natural governance in India.
This is not a movement merely for jubilation. It
is a moment for sober introspection. I would
like us to think back to the dreams of our
leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indiraji and Rajivji
and so many more of them who taught us to think
not of power but of service and who gave their
lives for the Country.
With this election, we have begun to redeem the
traditions they symbolized, the traditions of
the Congress party which led the Freedom
Struggle and built the foundations of our
country as a great, democratic, secular nation.
We have been appointed the guardians of the
hopes and aspirations of our people, most of all
the poor and disadvantaged. It is our sacred
task to take up this responsibility with
sincerity, honesty and diligence.
In the last five years in the UPA under Prime
Minister's leadership we were able to put in
place many measures to improve heir lives, to
bring about greater accountability in
governance, to strengthen our economy and our
security.
We must make sure that these endeavours are
taken forward and that we fully meet our
people's expectations. We must not forget that
new hopes and aspirations have been aroused.
Great duties and great tasks beacon us.
I conclude by thanking the millions of our
grassroots level workers who selflessly worked
day and night for this victory.
