Rahul Gandhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi stepped up his attack on the Centre and said the Opposition was not allowed to raise the China issue in Parliament. Rahul was addressing the Indian diaspora at Hounslow in London with nearly 1500 audience in attendance. He said the Opposition leaders can not raise the issue of Chinese intrusion into Indian territory in Parliament.
“The government doesn’t allow the concept of opposition in the country. The same thing happens in Parliament, the fact that Chinese sitting inside our territory when we raise these questions we are not allowed to raise them in the house … in fact, it’s a shame,” Rahul Gandhi said.
‘India an open country’
“Our country is an open country, a country where we take pride in our intelligence and respect each other. This has been destroyed. You can see the narrative in the media. So we decided to do Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he said at the event.
The MP from Wayanad hit out at the BJP government for allegedly not allowing any idea of opposition to be discussed in the House. “Govt does not allow any idea of opposition to be discussed. It is not an India all of us are used to,” he said.
Earlier in the day, Rahul paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and Guru Basavanna in London.
‘Cowardice in BJP ideology’
Stepping up his attack on the BJP, the Congress leader said, “at the heart of their ideology is cowardice”, in reference to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s remarks on China and the government not standing up to “stronger” China.
Rahul Gandhi also brought in VD Savarkar in the narrative of cowardice. Referring to an anecdote of one of the chapters of Savarkar’s book where joy is allegedly expressed at four-five people beating up one Muslim, Rahul said,”If a person feels happy by beating 4-5 people, that is cowardice.”
Rahul said, “If you have noticed a statement by the foreign minister, he said China is much more powerful than us.China is stronger than us, so we can’t fight with them. So the British were stronger than us, so we shouldn’t have gone and fought with them? How would we ever get independence if we had followed the BJP’s and RSS principles?”
It is engrained in the principle of BJP, he said, “to not fight someone stronger than us.”
Continuing his tirade, Rahul Gandhi said the biggest issues are unemployment, price rises and violence against Indian women. The fact they (women) are worried about walking in the streets of the country, he added.
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