“Ideological war taking place b/w Congress, BJP, RSS…” Rahul Gandhi at National Press Club in US
Sep 11, 2024
Washington DC (USA), September 11, (ANI): Congress leader and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while speaking in Washington DC, US on September 10. He said that there's an ideological war taking place in India between the Congress and our partners and the BJP and the RSS. Congress believes in
He said, "It's (being LoP in Lok Sabha) is an extension of what I did earlier. There's an ideological war taking place in India between the Congress and our partners and the BJP and the RSS. They are two completely different visions of India. We believe in a plural vision, a vision where everybody has a right to thrive. All imaginations are free to roam in India, where you're not persecuted because of what religion you believe in, what community you come from or which language you speak versus a much harsher, centralizing vision. So that's the landscape. Then, you know, we fight on that landscape. Defend India's institutions, defend the weaker sections in India, defend the lower caste, defend the tribal, minorities, and defend poor people. After the yatra, I tried to become the voice of as many people as I could. So for that, you have to go and understand what's going on. You have to go deeper, deep into the agricultural world, the conflicts that are taking place there, into the financial system, into the tax system. You have to, in a sense, go deep into it, talk to people and then understand deeply what they're saying and then transmit it and at a broader level, provide a vision. INDIA Alliance's vision for the country is going to be fundamentally different from the centralizing, monopolized vision that the BJP is presenting..."