NEW DELHI: “daro mat, sachhayi ka saamna karo (don’t be scared, face the truth) is the message of the hand symbol of the Congress Party. And the Congress will fight along with the people whom the Modi government and BJP are trying to scare away with their philosophy of ‘darao'”. ”, said Rahul Gandhi elaborating his party’s central theme in its national campaign against the Centre against the post-demonetisation issues. The Prime Minister, Gandhi added while addressing Congress national convention here, should be “wary of for having snatched away the money of the people” as the people of India who had driven away the British “can’t be taken for granted by any ruler”. Gandhi even said “achche din” of the people “will be back with Congress’ victory in 2019 polls”.The day-long event was an out and our Rahul Gandhi show (he presided over a mini AICC session-like meet and made its inaugural and closing speeches ) with Sonia Gandhi calculatedly staying away in order to hand over the central role to her son. Maintaining the Congress’ ‘hand’ symbol was “omnipresent in every religion and it signifies the message of facing the truth fearlessly”, Gandhi said “ people should not fear the government as Congress is with them. This a fight between two philosophies; the Congress philosophy of making people fearless and the BJP’s and Modi government’s philosophy of scraring away the people”. He said, ““RSS aur BJP desh ko barbaad kar rahi hain, nafrat faila kar, Demonetisation kar ke Sarkar desh ko barbaad kar rahe hauin. Hum aapko bachaynegy (the RSS and BJP are spreading hatred and by doing demonetisation, government is destroying the country. But we, the Congress, will fight for your rescue). The meet also announced second phase of Congress’ nation-wide agitation against demonetisation, which will include party workers placing an empty chair at meetings to carry out a mock trial of the PM.Gandhi’s Wednesday address was marked for his confident approach, connecting with the people with a speech that not only peppered with humour but also occasional mimicking of PM Modi. Gandhi said, “Modi ji ne kya kiya? kaha ki mera naam Narendra Modi hai aur mai tumse tumhari (farmers) zameen chheen sakta hoon. I told them daro mat. Ye desh akalmand desh hai, angrezon ko bhagaya hai. Chaand tak mission bhej diya hai. (What did Modi do? He said My Name is Narendra Modi and I can snatch your land. This is a country of intelligent people. We have thrown Britishers out of the country. Sent mission on mood, we won’t be fooled by Modiji)”Questioning the very rational of demonetisation , he said, “Crores of people were standing in lines, did you find any corrupt person there? The corrupt ones were at the bank’s backdoor..For the first time, an Indian PM is being ridiculed across the world for taking a decision like this. No credible economist has supported the demonetisation”. He accused the Government of interfering with the functional autonomy of RBI.Gandhi mocked at Modi by saying the PM has a penchant for taking his personal credit for everything India achieved. “Even Chandrayan (India’s moon project) happened only because of Modi ji not because of ISRO or our scientists. Unfortunately the middle did not have a photo of Modi ji otherwise the while world could have seen Modi ji raising towards moon on the missile”, Gandhi mocked with crowds cheering him.Arguing that Modi opted for demonetisation without realising its fallout, Gandhi said, PM had done many things like that including doing yoga without knowing padmasan. “"I saw PM Modi doing yoga on yoga day. The PM did all kinds of asanas - quite well - but he could not do the padmasana,… Anyone who doesn't do yoga regularly can't do the Padmasana."