Washington:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, talking on the Nationwide Press Membership in Washington DC, stated that our celebration was politically pressured 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 stated that the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Nyay Yatra have been the one methods to attach with Indians.
“We have been pressured politically to take out the Yatra as a result of all of the devices that usually work in a democracy, they simply weren’t working….The media was not working, the courts weren’t working…nothing was working so we stated, 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…” Mr Gandhi stated on Tuesday (native time).
He stated 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 section of politics we by no means noticed earlier than. Aggressive, attacking the foundations of our democratic buildings. It has been a tricky struggle. And personally, it modified me,” he stated.
“I would not have ever imagined earlier than 2014 that I’d have laughed on the thought of strolling from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. However, that was the one approach left for the opposition in our nation. Media was suppressed, establishments have been managed, businesses have been attacking the opposition, and governments have been overthrown. We discovered that actually the one approach to go to the individuals of India. That definitely modified me,” the Congress chief additional stated.
Explaining his Yatras, Rahul Gandhi stated, “One march was on foot, and the opposite was by automobile. 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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— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 10, 2024
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