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Udaipur: Acknowledging that the Congress' connection with people has been 'broken', Rahul Gandhi on Sunday urged party leaders to shift their focus from internal matters to re-establishing the connect through concerted outreach efforts. Gandhi also hailed as 'an important idea' the party's decisions to give more representation to the youth and empower them, and added that there should be a 'healthy mix of youngsters and seniors'. In his remarks at the concluding session of the three-day 'Nav Sankalp Chintan Shivir' in Udaipur, Gandhi said, "The Congress' connection with the people has been broken, we will have to accept that, we will have to re-establish that connection. The people know that only the Congress can take the country forward. This is our responsibility." He asserted that it is the party's responsibility to fight and stand with the people, and there 'were no short-cuts' to re-establishing the connect with them. "It is a complaint. Our entire discussion, all talks are about our internal matters...who is getting which post. Our focus is internal. In today's time this internal focus will not work, our focus should be external," the former Congress chief said, adding that the party will have to turn its attention to the people and go to them. "Without thinking anything, be it our senior leaders, junior leaders or workers, we should go and sit with the people," he said. He urged party leaders to understand the problems of the people and re-establish the connect the party used to have with the people. Gandhi said as part of efforts to re-establish the connect with the people, the Congress party has decided that in October, the whole party will go to the people by taking out a 'yatra' which would strengthen the bond with the pu ...