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Asserting that his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is an ideological yatra, Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said the journey being undertaken is aimed at placing certain ideas on the table before the people and present an alternative vision to the divisive one of the BJP.
Addressing a press conference here on the third day of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Gandhi also launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi while talking about the Nagaland peace issue and alleged that the PM “promises things without thinking them through”.
#WATCH | Nagaland: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says, “We decided to start (this yatra) from the northeast, which I consider to be one of the most important parts of our country. And we started in Manipur, where, as you all know, there has been bloodshed, hatred and violence. The… https://t.co/hPSbhxSWmX pic.twitter.com/9gLfhTG275
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“Why the Prime Minister has not acted, I am frankly the wrong person to ask that question to, because I don’t know his mind, I don’t know his approach, but, I do get the sense that the Prime Minister promises things without thinking them through,” Gandhi said.
Further, Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the Ram temple consecration event in Ayodhya has been made into a “Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP function” with an “election flavour”, as he strongly defended the decision of his party’s top leaders to decline the invite to the ceremony.
#WATCH | Kohima, Nagaland | When asked about BJP calling Congress and Gandhi family as “anti-Hindu”, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, “…Someone who actually believes in religion keeps a personal relation with it. He uses religion in his life. Those who keep a public relation with… pic.twitter.com/VWbdNHBfOn
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Gandhi, whose family and party have been accused of being anti-Hindu by the BJP, also asserted that the Hindu dharma for him is a way of life and he tries to live by its principles, adding that those who “don’t believe in it, need to wear it on their shirt”.
“The issue frankly is that the RSS and the BJP have made the 22 January function a completely political, Narendra Modi function.
“It is difficult for us to go to a political function which is designed around the PM and the RSS. We made it clear whoever would like to visit the Ram temple among our partners, among our parties is more than welcome to do so,” he said.
