After his comment, that the Congress alone can combat the BJP as regional events neither have an ideology nor a centralized method, upset many events within the opposition, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has now opted for a extra nuanced place, He mentioned his remarks in Udaipur had been misconstrued and that he doesn’t take into account the Congress as “the big daddy.”
Gandhi mentioned the Congress is on no account “superior” to the opposite opposition events. He mentioned all of the events are preventing the identical battle however added that the “ideological battle that is taking place is between the national vision of the RSS and the national vision of the Congress.”
During an interplay in London, Gandhi additionally mentioned that the Congress was not successful elections due to polarization and the dominance of the media by the BJP. He added that the combat in India isn’t a political combat, it isn’t a combat between one political group and a set of different political events.
“We are now fighting the institutional structure of the Indian state which is being captured by an organization which means the only way for us… we will get no respite from the institutional framework of our country… the only way for us is to go to the large mass of the India people. And that is not just the Congress… that is for all opposition parties,” he mentioned.
He mentioned the Congress must take into consideration an organizational system which is way nearer to a big mass of the individuals. “And we even have to consider large-scale mass actions on points like unemployment, costs, regional points and we’ve got to coordinate with our buddies within the opposition. So I do not see the Congress as the massive daddy. It is a gaggle effort with the opposition however it’s a combat to regain India.”
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Asked whether or not he was cementing collaboration with different events to maneuver ahead, he mentioned: “Yes. And the purpose I made in Udaipur which was misconstrued is that that is an ideological battle now and it’s a nationwide ideological battle which signifies that, after all, we respect… for instance the DMK as a Tamil political organisation, however the Congress is the social gathering that has the ideology on the nationwide stage. So the Congress must take into consideration itself as a construction that’s enabling the opposition. In no approach is the Congress superior to the opposite opposition events. We are all preventing the identical battle… they’ve their house… we’ve got our house. But the ideological battle that’s going down is between the nationwide imaginative and prescient of the RSS and the nationwide imaginative and prescient of the Congress,” he mentioned.
In his concluding remarks on the Udaipur Chintan Shivir final week, Gandhi had mentioned that the Congress alone can combat the BJP because the regional events neither have an ideology nor a centralized method. “Regional parties belong to some caste. They don’t represent everyone,” he had mentioned.
“This battle can’t be fought by a regional social gathering. Because it is a battle of ideology. The ideology of the RSS is preventing towards the ideology of the Congress. BJP will speak concerning the Congress, its leaders and staff however is not going to speak about regional events. Because they know that regional events have an area however they can not defeat the BJP as a result of they do not have an ideology. They have totally different approaches. We have a centralized method. And our combat is about ideology,” he mentioned.
On why the BJP is successful elections and Congress isn’t regardless of points like unemployment and rising costs, he attributed it to “polarisation and total dominance of the media.”
“Also, there may be one other factor which one has to simply accept which is that the RSS has constructed a construction that has penetrated into the big mass. And the opposition events and the Congress have to construct such buildings. And we have to go rather more aggressively to the big mass of individuals… the 60-70 per cent of people that don’t vote for the BJP and we have to do it collectively,” he mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
