Congress chief Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday evening (GMT) and alleged that the BJP and RSS are “incapable of trying on the future” and might solely speak concerning the previous.
Addressing a gathering of the Indian diaspora within the Javits Centre in New York, Gandhi stated, “He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) is attempting to drive the automotive…the Indian automotive and he seems to be within the rear-view mirror. Then he doesn’t perceive why this automotive is crashing, not shifting ahead. And it’s the identical thought with the BJP, with the RSS. All of them. You hearken to the ministers, you hearken to the Prime Minister. You’ll by no means discover them speaking concerning the future. They solely speak concerning the previous”.
Gandhi asserted that the BJP and RSS communicate solely concerning the previous and at all times “blame anyone else for the previous”. In India, there’s a struggle occurring again between two ideologies — one represented by the Congress and the opposite by the BJP and the RSS, the previous MP stated.
“The only approach to describe this struggle is that on one facet you might have Mahatma Gandhi and on the opposite facet, Nathuram Godse,” he stated.
On the Odisha practice accident, which claimed 275 lives and left over 1,000 injured, Gandhi stated that in the course of the Congress tenure, if practice mishaps occurred, ministers used to take tasks for his or her actions and “we accepted our errors”.
“I bear in mind a practice accident when the Congress was in energy. The Congress didn’t rise up and say ‘now it’s the fault of the British that the practice has crashed’. The Congress minister stated ‘it’s my duty and I’m resigning’. So that is the issue now we have again residence, we make excuses and we’re not accepting the fact we’re confronted with,” Gandhi stated.
A one-minute silence was additionally noticed to pay respect to the individuals who died within the accident.
Throughout his 40-minute lengthy speech, Gandhi additionally praised the Indian-American neighborhood for the way in which they’ve lived within the US. “All of the giants which have emerged from India, you’ll be able to see that there have been sure qualities that every one of them possessed. Firstly, they looked for, represented and fought for the reality. Secondly, all these individuals had been humble, and there was no vanity in them. That’s how Indians have labored within the US, and that’s why Indians are profitable right here. I respect and honour you for that.”
Gandhi is on a six-day, three-city tour to the USA. He has visited California, the Bay space, Washington and New York to work together with the Indian communities, suppose tanks and the press.
Earlier final week, Gandhi additionally stated the RSS and the BJP are controlling all of the devices of politics in India. Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul stated, “I feel in case you sat Modi ji down subsequent to god, Modi ji would begin explaining to god how the universe works. And god would get confused that what have I created.”
— With PTI inputs