“I feel politics in India modified in 2014. We entered a part of politics we by no means noticed earlier than. Aggressive, attacking the foundations of our democratic buildings. It has been a troublesome battle. And personally, it modified me,” he mentioned.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, talking on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington DC, mentioned that our occasion was politically compelled to take up the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay Yatra as a result of all of the devices that usually work in a democracy weren’t working. He mentioned the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay Yatra had been the one methods to attach with Indians.
“We had been compelled politically to take out the Yatra as a result of all of the devices that usually work in a democracy, they only weren’t working…The media was not working, the courts weren’t working…nothing was working so we mentioned, okay, let’s go direct. We went and it labored…It labored fantastically. This was on the political stage and my work stage however as a person, on the personal stage, I all the time wished to do it. I all the time wished to do it since I used to be younger. I all the time had this concept that I have to, sooner or later in my life, stroll throughout my nation and see what it is about…” Gandhi mentioned on Tuesday (native time).
He mentioned that politics in India modified in 2014, PM Narendra Modi’s first time period because the Prime Minister. “I feel politics in India modified in 2014. We entered a part of politics we by no means noticed earlier than. Aggressive, attacking the foundations of our democratic buildings. It has been a troublesome battle. And personally, it modified me,” he mentioned.
“I would not have ever imagined earlier than 2014 that I might have laughed on the concept of strolling from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. However, that was the one manner left for the opposition in our nation. Media was suppressed, establishments had been managed, businesses had been attacking the opposition, and governments had been overthrown. We discovered that actually the one solution to go to the individuals of India. That definitely modified me,” the Congress chief additional mentioned.
Explaining his Yatras, Rahul Gandhi mentioned, “One march was on foot, and the opposite was by automotive. One went from South India all the way in which to Kashmir- that was by foot… [which was] 4,000km. Different one was from Manipur which, as you understand, is burning to Maharashtra.”
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