Congress must change with the changing politics of this country, senior party leader Kamal Nath told CL Manoj in an interview, while asserting that the leadership of Gandhis is "non-negotiable." Providing his take on the post-assembly poll challenges before the party, Nath said the Congress must re-position itself as the party that represents India’s aspirational society and underlined the need for new organisational teams in the All India Congress Committee and in the states. Edited excerpts:In Assam , Congress was faced with 15 years’ anti-incumbency burden and there was also a virtual split ahead of polls. In Kerala , we lost to the state’s tradition of voting out the incumbent and BJP won just one seat. We must recognise the basis. We have lost states due to the anti-incumbency burden accumulated during longer spells in government.The UPA lost after a record-breaking 10 years’ stint. Compared to us, BJP has been recording a sharper and quicker drop in vote share and seats in states within two years of its Lok Sabha poll victory due to popular disenchantment with the failures of the Modi government in delivering what it had promised. While Congress won a total 124 seats in this round of elections, BJP could win just 64 seatsI think there is a need to take constructive steps to reinforce and revitalise the Congress organisation, from the Centre to the states.The Congress must change with the changing politics of this country.India is the biggest aspirational society on the planet with an extremely energetic, talented and ambitious youth segment. The Congress must take imaginative and creative steps to project itself as a party that represents the aspirational society. There is a growing resentment in our society, especially the two major social segments – the youth and the farmers – against the Modi government due to its failure to deliver on the poll promises. Therefore, the Congress must project itself as the only party of governance and must articulate alternative policy.Major steps have to be taken to re-energise the Congress. There is a need to bring in a new set of Congress leadership, both at the Centre and the states.A mix of youth and experiencedAttacking the Gandhi family has been the obsession for RSS and BJP. Senior leaders and ministers of BJP have intensified their attack on the Gandhi family in order to divert public attention from their government’s failures to deliver.During the Vajpayee government, senior BJP leaders such as Sushma Swaraj and Pramod Mahajan had led the vicious attacks on Sonia-ji and not even a leader like Vajpayee-ji could shield his government from the public anger those attacks triggered. The same thing is bound to happen again.For Congress and its supporters, the leadership of the Gandhis is non-negotiable.