Emergency was a mistake: Rahul Gandhi |
India`s Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on 2nd March said that the Emergency imposed in 1975 by his grandmother and the then Prime Minister Late Indira Gandhi was a mistake. Interacting with economist, professor Kaushik Basu through a video link, Rahul said, "I think that was a mistake. Absolutely, that was a mistake. And my grandmother said as much. But the Congress party did not want to capture India`s institutions. We do not have that capability,". He clarified that his party even then did not want to capture the institutions but the model that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh follows is different. He said, "What RSS is doing today is something different. They are capturing all constitutional institutions. So even if we defeat the BJP, we are not going to get rid of the RSS people in the institutions.". Rahul also cited the present situation in Puducherry and mentioned how the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh could not work because of the RSS people in all institutions. On being asked about internal democracy in the party, Rahul Gandhi said, "You are asking this to a person who has been pushing for elections in the party, in youth organizations for a decade. I was literally crucified for this. I have been attacked by my party people. Nobody asks whether there is internal democracy in BJP, Bahujan, or Socialist Party. There is a reason. We are an ideological formation. So it is more important for us to be democratic. It doesn`t matter whether others are,". Rahul Gandhi also said a former RSS person met him and explained to him the entire model. Rahul added, "He said the innovation of Narendra Modi is to take large capital and fund RSS which used to be an organization of small shopkeepers. So now the model is to scale up RSS using 2,3,5,7 crony capitalists. The Gujarat model is actually giving thousands of crores to RSS modules,".
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