congress MP Rahul Gandhi criticizes Emergency
Former President of congress party Rahul Gandhi In a virtual dialogue with Cornwell University Professor Kaushik Basu, called his grandmother, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declaration,’s of Emergency a “mistake.”
Rahul Gandhi has said that the emergency, during which time fundamental rights and civil liberties were revoked, the media were heavily censored and many opposition figures were imprisoned, was “fundamentally different from the present scenario.”
There is a fundamental difference between what happened in the Emergency, which was wrong, and what is happening now. Congress party, at no point, attempted to capture India’s constitutional framework. Our design doesn’t allow us that. Even if we want to do it, we can’t,” said the Wayanad MP.
Attacking out at Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, Gandhi claimed that democracy in India is now being strangled to death by the systemic intervention of the RSS in all the country’s independent institutions.
So, even if we defeat the BJP in the election, we are not going to get rid of their people in the institutional structure,” he added.
Speaking about the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi mentioned that it was more excruciating for him, as a kid, to see Rajiv Gandhi heading into his demise, thinking that he’s not going to come out of what he’s been fighting for than his actual death.
