Washington, September 12 : Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that arrogance had crept into the Congress in 2012 as they has lost touch with people.
He said the Congress decided policies and vision through conversation and not by imposition.  Gandhi, who was addressing students at University of California, Berkeley, said around 2012 the Congress Party “stopped having conversations with people”. He said this could be a problem for any party, which is in power for 10 years. “The vision that we laid out in 2004 was designed at best for a 10-year period. And it was pretty clear that the vision that we laid out in 2004 by the time we arrived in 2010-11 was not working anymore,” the 47-year-old leader said.”Somewhere around 2012, and I say this, a certain arrogance crept into the Congress party. And they stopped having that conversation.” When asked if he wanted to take up an executive role in the Congress, he responded by saying, “I am absolutely ready to do that”. However, he quickly left the decision on his party.”We have an organisational election process that decides that. And that process is currently ongoing. So we have an internal system where we elect certain delegates who make that decision. So for me to say that that decision is mine that wouldn’t be very fair.”That’s a decision that the Congress Party has to make and that’s a process that’s currently going on right now,” he said.