While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is determined to eliminate the Congress from across the nation, president of the grand old Congress, Rahul Gandhi, has a fresh view on the whole matter. If the BJP wants a “Congress-mukt Bharat”, Rahul does not want a “BJP-mukt Bharat”.
The Congress president also says people who left the party for the BJP are “already having second thoughts.”
“You might have noticed Mr Modi talks very disparagingly about me, about other Congress leaders. I will always respect the post of the Prime Minister. You will not see me using the same type of language. I am even saying that the BJP view is a fact in India, and I don’t want a BJP-mukt Bharat,” the 47-year-old tells a daily.
Rahul’s comment on the whole matter came at a time when the Congress and the BJP are pitted against each other in the fierce battle for Karnataka. The southern state is going to polls on May 12. The results of the Assembly elections will be out on May 15. The elections will be held for 224 Assembly seats in Karnataka.
According to him, there is a “huge reaction” in Karnataka against what he called a narrowly defined, Nagpur-RSS idea of nationalism. The RSS or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is the ideological mentor of the BJP. “This election is frankly about Karnataka’s voice versus the RSS viewpoint versus Narendra Modi’s very rigid concept of what it means to be an Indian,” he said.
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