Addressing the party workers on the occasion of 132nd foundation day of the Indian Nation Congress, Congress vice-president on Wednesday hit back at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central stating how the BJP has formed a rigid view of everything, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is spreading anger across India.
ALSO READ: Major Political escapades that shaped 2016
Comparing BJP’s ideology with that of Congress, Gandhi, speaking to Congress party workers on the 132nd foundation day of the Indian National Congress, alleged the BJP of following a rigid stance similar to its ideological head, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
Gandhi said:
“Congress is not just a party, it’s an idea. Congress means being open to a second viewpoint. It means listening to you. It means listening to others. It doesn’t have a single rigid point of view.”
ALSO READ: India becomes second largest arms purchaser after Saudi Arabia
Gandhi also alleged that the Modi-led government is following on the footpath of RSS and is spreading anger in the country, and called on his party workers to fight against this politics of anger. “Congress has to stand with the poor, the middle class, the labourers and the small traders. We have to go to the people. I am sure you will do this. And fight against this RSS ideology of spreading anger,” he said.
‘The Congress is the idea that it is not only my view that will prevail,I must seek out your views.’ At the #CongressFoundationDay @INCIndia pic.twitter.com/6q0UBbeEhi
— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) December 28, 2016
Gandhi also mocked the Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise the old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 on 8 November. He said that the government has sacrificed the people.
“The prime minister said he is performing a yagya against black money and corruption. The yagya of demonetisation is being performed for the one percent super rich. And just like a sacrifice made in a yagya, the prime minister has sacrificed the common people,” he said.