NEW DELHI: Speaking at an event organized by the Indian diaspora in Dallas, US, Congress MP and leader of opposition in
Lok Sabha
(LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the fear of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the
Prime Minister
Modi had vanished among the people of India immediately after the announcement of the Lok Sabha
election results
earlier this year.
Sharing his perspective on post Lok Sabha election 2024 scenario, Rahul Gandhi said, “The other thing that happened that was very beautiful, that in fact, I was amazed that it happened so quickly was that fear of the BJP vanished, disappeared, gone and we saw that immediately. Within minutes of the election result, nobody in India was scared of the BJP or the Prime Minister of India.”
“So, these are huge achievements not of Rahul Gandhi or the Congress party. We are peripheral. These are huge achievements of the people of India who realized democracy, of the people of India who realized that we are not going to accept an attack on our constitution. We are not going to accept an attack on our religion. We’re not going to accept an attack on our states,” Gandhi added.
Watch: Addressing Indian Diaspora | Dallas, Texas, USA
Gandhi also talked about what he thinks is the difference in the idea of India between the RSS and the Congress party. He said, “The RSS believes that India is one idea and we believe that India is a multiplicity of ideas and we believe by the way, very much like the United States, we believe that everybody should be allowed to participate.”
In his speech, Rahul Gandhi also said that his vision for the nation involves contributions from individuals from diverse backgrounds. “We believe that everybody should be allowed to dream. Everybody should be given space regardless of their caste, language, religion, tradition, or history. This is the fight and the fight was crystallized in the election when millions of people in India clearly understood that the Prime Minister of India is attacking the Constitution of India because what I am saying to you, union of states, respect to languages, respect to religions, respect to traditions, respect to castes. This is all in the Constitution,” he said.
“Every single word that I said to you is in the Constitution. The foundation of modern India is the Constitution and what people understood in the election clearly and I saw it happening when I used to raise the constitution like this, people understood what I was saying. They were saying that the BJP is attacking our tradition, attacking our language, attacking our states, attacking our histories, and most importantly, what they understood was that anybody who is attacking the Constitution of India is also attacking our religious tradition,” he added.
Rahul Gandhi arrived in Dallas, Texas, on Sunday for a three-day US visit. The Congress MP was welcomed at the airport by Sam Pitroda, chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, and members of the Indian diaspora.
