Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Monday mentioned that the social gathering won’t ever have any form of relationship with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), now renamed Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Talking at a press convention at Kothur, on the sidelines of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul mentioned there was no query of any alliance with the ruling Telangana social gathering. Requested about TRS chief Ok Chandrashekar Rao’s nationwide ambitions, the Congress chief mentioned: “If the Telangana CM believes that he’s working a nationwide social gathering, let him achieve this. If he believes he’s working a world social gathering, that can also be fantastic. He’s welcome to think about that he’s working a global social gathering, which can contest elections within the US or China or in different international locations, we’re joyful to just accept it. Now we have no downside wherever the BRS desires to contest. Now we have no downside if the BRS is speaking to (JD-U chief) Nitish Kumar. We can’t stand with the corruption, the method and the perspective of the BRS.”
In the course of the course of the Yatra in Telangana – a state the place the Congress is the principle opposition social gathering – Rahul has been steadily elevating the pitch towards the TRS. He mentioned he had met a number of delegations of weavers, farmers, girls, college students and unemployed youth, and all instructed him concerning the issues they had been dealing with. “There’s an outpouring from varied sections. Each part of the society is struggling due to the insurance policies of the TRS within the state and the BJP on the Centre,’’ Rahul mentioned.
He has additionally accused the Telangana authorities of “grabbing land from SCs and STs”, “minting cash via varied irrigation tasks’’ and “privatising and destroying the schooling system”. At Mathkal, he mentioned the TRS and BJP had been two sides of the identical coin. “The TRS has supported the BJP on the Centre in getting Payments handed. Each are undemocratic and are working collectively like enterprise homes fairly than political events, and are completely neglecting the folks,’’ Rahul mentioned.
On Monday, with the high-stakes Munugode Meeting bypoll three days away, he accused the BJP and TRS of spending crores on elections. “The query is the place is that this cash coming from. Clearly, it’s coming from corruption and this cash is being distributed blatantly.”
Requested concerning the Congress prospects within the Gujarat elections, Rahul exuded confidence that his social gathering will win, and that the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) has solely created a buzz within the state, on the idea of commercials, and had no help on the bottom.
Claiming large anti-incumbency towards the BJP authorities within the state, Rahul mentioned: “The Congress is contesting the Gujarat elections successfully. AAP is barely within the air… The media has created a buzz primarily based on the commercials given by AAP… The Congress is stable on the bottom, it’ll win.”
Whereas expressing his condolences over the tragedy in Morbi, the place a bridge collapse left greater than 130 useless, Rahul mentioned he wouldn’t speak about it as he didn’t want to politicise the incident.
Repeating what the Congress has referred to as the core of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul mentioned the struggle in India in the present day was between two ideologies – one to divide the nation and to unfold violence, and the opposite to convey the nation collectively. “The road could be very clear. The Congress social gathering and I really feel that the Opposition events ought to work collectively and harmoniously to defeat the ideology of the RSS and BJP.”
The Bharat Jodo Yatra was undoubtedly “a political act”, Rahul mentioned. “This isn’t a sports activities yatra. It’s a political motion towards the way in which the BJP and RSS are dividing the nation, and damaging the nation.
He additionally mentioned that the Congress was a democratic social gathering, in contrast to others. “It’s in our DNA that we not run a dictatorship. Just lately we democratically elected a celebration president. I don’t know when the RSS, BJP, BRS and different events will maintain elections to decide on their leaders. The media all the time asks about elections within the Congress however by no means dares to query the BJP or the TRS,’’ he mentioned.