Following the outcome of the Lok Sabha election, people’s fear of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party has decreased, according to Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Speaking to the Indian community in Dallas, Texas, the Congressman recalled using Abhayamudra, a brave symbol found in all Indian religions, in his first statement in the Parliament following the elections.
The BJP, he said, could not accept or comprehend this. “The other thing that happened was that the fear of the BJP vanished. We saw that immediately, within minutes of the election result, nobody in India was scared of the BJP or the Prime Minister of India. So these are huge achievements, not of Rahul Gandhi or the Congress party. We are peripheral. These are huge achievements of the people of India who realised democracy, ” said Rahul Gandhi.
In addition, he stated that his party holds that India is a plurality of ideas, in contrast to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the parent organisation of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
“The RSS believes that India is one idea and we believe that India is a multiplicity of ideas. We believe that everybody should be allowed to participate, allowed to dream and should be given space regardless of their caste, language, religion, tradition, or history. This is the fight and the fight was crystallized in the election when millions of people in India clearly understood that the Prime Minister of India was attacking the Constitution of India,” Rahul Gandhi said.
He said that every single word he has spoken is rooted in the Constitution, which he described as the foundation of modern India. He said that during the election, when he highlighted the Constitution, people understood his message.
“I saw it happening when I used to raise the Constitution, people understood what I was saying. They were saying that the BJP is attacking our tradition, attacking our language, attacking our states, attacking our histories. Most importantly, what they understood was that anybody who is attacking the Constitution of India is also attacking our religious tradition,” said Gandhi.
