Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi commented on the Lok Sabha elections while interacting with students at Georgetown University in the US.
Apart from this, he also talked about issues like business, RSS, media and constitution.
Rahul Gandhi said, “Before the elections, we were worried that the institutions have been taken over… it was not a fair game for us. The education system has been taken over by the RSS. The media and investigation agencies are under control. We were telling this to the people but they were not able to understand this…”
“After this, I started keeping the Constitution with me and people started understanding everything… The poor and suffering people of India understood that if the Constitution goes, everything will go away. The poor people understood that this fight is between those who save the Constitution and those who want to destroy it.”
Rahul Gandhi said, “The issue of caste census also became big. All these things came together suddenly.”
He said, “I don’t think that in a fair election, BJP could have won even 246 seats. They had financial support, they locked our bank accounts. Election Commission was doing what they wanted.”
“The entire election campaign was designed in such a way that Narendra Modi could do his work in the whole country. The states where he was weak were designed differently, where he was strong, they were designed differently. I don’t consider it a free election. I consider it a controlled election.”
Rahul said that something has changed after the Lok Sabha elections. Now I don’t feel scared. The fear is gone. BJP and Prime Minister Modi spread so much fear, put pressure of agencies on small businessmen, everything disappeared in seconds.
He said, ‘It took them years to spread this fear and it disappeared in a few seconds. In Parliament, I see the Prime Minister in front. I can tell that Modi’s idea, 56-inch chest, direct connection with God, all this is over now, all this has become history now.’
He said, “There is a big collusion between the government and two or three big businesses. OBCs and Dalits are being cheated.”
