Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who’s on a 10-day tour to the US, took a swipe on the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that “some teams in India have the illness of being below the impression that they know every part.”
Addressing the Indian diaspora at an occasion titled ‘Mohabbat ki Dukaan’ in San Francisco on Wednesday, Rahul stated: “In India, we grew up with individuals of various languages, totally different religions. And that’s what is being attacked. The custom in India, of individuals like Gandhi Ji and Guru Nanak Ji, has been that you just shouldn’t be below the impression of figuring out every part. It’s a ‘illness’ that some teams of India suppose that they know every part. Even when they’ve a dialog with God, they could clarify to him.
Sharpening his assault, Rahul stated: “And naturally, Prime Minister is one in every of them. In case you make him sit with God, he would begin explaining to him (God) how the universe works…and God would get confused about what I had created.”
“They (BJP) can converse to scientists and clarify science to them. They’ll clarify historical past to historians, warfare to the military and flying to the air power. However on the coronary heart of it, they don’t know something,” Rahul stated.
The Congress chief, who was just lately disqualified from the Parliament, added that he needed to take out ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ as a result of all devices of doing politics and connecting with individuals have been “being managed” by the RSS and the BJP.
He added that the “complete India” walked with him throughout the Yatra. “Whereas strolling we realised that ordinary devices for doing politics (connecting with individuals) weren’t working anymore. They have been managed by the BJP and RSS. Individuals are threatened and companies are used towards them. Not directly, it had develop into fairly tough to behave politically. That’s the reason we determined to stroll from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar.”
Rahul additionally accused the BJP of attempting every part to cease his yatra however nothing work towards the “impact” of the yatra. He added that it was throughout the Yatra that the concept of ‘Nafrat Ke Bazaar Mein Mohabbat Ki Dukaan’ got here as much as his thoughts.
“Not simply in India, ‘Bharat Jodo’ is an thought which is about respecting one another and being affectionate to one another. It’s about not being violent in the direction of one another, not being smug. And I did nothing in comparison with Guru Nanak Ji. I learn that he walked to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. He was doing Bharat Jodo a lot earlier than. In Karnataka, Basavana ji. In Kerala, Narayan Guruji, each state has had these giants,” he stated.
He additionally praised the individuals who attended the occasion, including that Indians absorbed each concept that got here to them and by no means rejected something. “You weren’t right here in case you had not believed on this. In case you had believed in anger, hatred, and vanity, you’ll have gone to BJP, and I might have began ‘Mann ki Baat’,” he added.
Gandhi stated India is just not what’s being proven within the media which likes to advertise a political narrative that’s removed from actuality, asserting that there’s a “big distortion”.
“It was very clear to me within the Yatra that it is within the media’s curiosity to undertaking these items, it helps the BJP. So, do not suppose that every part you see within the media is the reality,” he stated. “India is just not what the media exhibits. The media likes to point out a selected narrative. It likes to advertise a political narrative that’s truly not what’s going on in India,” he stated.
In keeping with Indian Abroad Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda, stated Gandhi’s go to is aimed toward selling shared values and a imaginative and prescient of actual democracy. “The aim of his (Gandhi’s) journey is to attach, work together and start a brand new dialog with numerous people, establishments and media, together with the Indian diaspora that’s rising in numbers in america and overseas to advertise the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the actual democracy with a deal with freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternatives world over, Pitroda stated in a press release.
