BJP could also be defeated if Opposition is ‘aligned appropriately’: Rahul Gandhi 

By PTI

SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP could also be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned properly” and the Congress get collectively is working in path of it and it is “coming along very nicely”, Rahul Gandhi has suggested Indian Americans proper right here, citing his get collectively’s emphatic victory inside the present assembly elections in Karnataka.

Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an event on the Silicon Valley Campus of the University of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi talked about he can clearly see “vulnerabilities” inside the BJP.

As a political entrepreneur, I can clearly see vulnerabilities inside the BJP. The BJP could also be defeated if the Opposition is aligned appropriately, he talked about.

If you check out the Karnataka elections, the general sense is that the Congress Party fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. But what is not properly understood is the mechanics that we used,” he talked about.

The Congress get collectively used a really fully totally different technique to stopping an election and developing a narrative, Gandhi talked about, together with that components of what occurred in Karnataka bought right here out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

In the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the Congress acquired 135 seats, whereas incumbent BJP and the earlier prime minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) obtained 66 and 19, respectively.

Gandhi talked about inside the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 events extra cash than the Congress get collectively.

He talked about the nation wished one other imaginative and prescient to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), together with having a united Opposition inside the 2024 regular elections.

On the matter of opposition unity, we’re working in path of it and it is coming alongside very correctly. But I really feel with the intention to defeat the BJP, you need further than merely opposition unity. Just opposition unity, for my part, is not going to be enough to do the job. I really feel you need one other imaginative and prescient to the BJP, he talked about.

Part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was the 1st step in proposing such a imaginative and prescient. It’s the imaginative and prescient that all opposition occasions are aligned with. No opposition get collectively would disagree with the idea of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he talked about.

Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was a Gandhi-led mass movement geared towards uniting India. The yatra began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, handed by means of 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.

During the course of the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public conferences, over 100 nook conferences and 13 press conferences.

He had over 275 deliberate strolling interactions and better than 100 sitting interactions.

“So, I really feel bringing the opposition collectively is important, however as well as aligning the opposition and making the people of India understand that there is not solely a bunch of opposition occasions which have blended nonetheless a proposed technique forward for the nation. And we’re engaged on these points, Gandhi talked about.

The ex-Wayanad MP talked about it is the president of the Congress get collectively who will resolve the prime ministerial candidate.

We think about that everybody in India, regardless of who they’re, whichever part of the society they arrive from, should have a voice that voice must be revered, to be listened to be appreciated. And I really feel that voice is an asset, he talked about.

In his sort out, Gandhi moreover took a dig on the ruling BJP authorities, saying it is “threatening” the people and “misusing” the nation’s corporations.

“The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies. The Bharat Jodo Yatra started because all the instruments that we needed to connect with the people were controlled by the BJP-RSS,” he talked about.

“We were also finding that in some way, it had become quite difficult to act politically. And that’s why we decided to walk from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he talked about. Gandhi talked about the yatra carried the spirit of affection, respect and humility.

“If one studies history, it can be seen that all spiritual leaders including Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the nation in a similar way,” he talked about.

Gandhi talked about India is not what’s being confirmed inside the media which likes to promote a political narrative that is faraway from actuality, asserting that there is a “huge distortion”.

“It was very clear to me in the Yatra that it’s in the media’s interest to project these things, it helps the BJP. So, don’t think that everything you see in the media is the truth,” he talked about. “India is not what the media shows. The media likes to show a particular narrative. It likes to promote a political narrative that is actually not what is going on in India,” he talked about.

The Congress chief arrived proper right here on Tuesday on a three-city US tour all through which he’ll work along with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.

He had a first-hand experience of the American immigration system as he wanted to look forward to about two hours alongside alongside together with his totally different co-passengers on the Air India flight because of the widespread shortage of staff on the US airports.

People have been seen taking selfies with him and asking him questions.

He was seen interacting and mingling with totally different travellers on the San Francisco airport.

Last week, Indian Overseas Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda talked about Gandhi’s go to is geared towards promoting shared values and a imaginative and prescient of precise democracy.

“The operate of his (Gandhi’s) journey is to connect, work collectively and begin a model new dialog with diversified individuals, institutions and media, along with the Indian diaspora that is rising in numbers inside the United States and abroad to promote the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the particular democracy with a cope with freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternate options world over,” Pitroda talked about in an announcement.

SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP could also be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned properly” and the Congress get collectively is working in path of it and it is “coming along very nicely”, Rahul Gandhi has suggested Indian Americans proper right here, citing his get collectively’s emphatic victory inside the present assembly elections in Karnataka.

Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an event on the Silicon Valley Campus of the University of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi talked about he can clearly see “vulnerabilities” inside the BJP.

As a political entrepreneur, I can clearly see vulnerabilities inside the BJP. The BJP could also be defeated if the Opposition is aligned appropriately, he talked about.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

If you check out the Karnataka elections, the general sense is that the Congress Party fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. But what is not properly understood is the mechanics that we used,” he talked about.

The Congress get collectively used a really fully totally different technique to stopping an election and developing a narrative, Gandhi talked about, together with that components of what occurred in Karnataka bought right here out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

In the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the Congress acquired 135 seats, whereas incumbent BJP and the earlier prime minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) obtained 66 and 19, respectively.

Gandhi talked about inside the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 events extra cash than the Congress get collectively.

He talked about the nation wished one other imaginative and prescient to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), together with having a united Opposition inside the 2024 regular elections.

On the matter of opposition unity, we’re working in path of it and it is coming alongside very correctly. But I really feel with the intention to defeat the BJP, you need further than merely opposition unity. Just opposition unity, for my part, is not going to be enough to do the job. I really feel you need one other imaginative and prescient to the BJP, he talked about.

Part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was the 1st step in proposing such a imaginative and prescient. It’s the imaginative and prescient that all opposition occasions are aligned with. No opposition get collectively would disagree with the idea of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he talked about.

Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was a Gandhi-led mass movement geared towards uniting India. The yatra began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, handed by means of 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.

During the course of the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public conferences, over 100 nook conferences and 13 press conferences.

He had over 275 deliberate strolling interactions and better than 100 sitting interactions.

“So, I really feel bringing the opposition collectively is important, however as well as aligning the opposition and making the people of India understand that there is not solely a bunch of opposition occasions which have blended nonetheless a proposed technique forward for the nation. And we’re engaged on these points, Gandhi talked about.

The ex-Wayanad MP talked about it is the president of the Congress get collectively who will resolve the prime ministerial candidate.

We think about that everybody in India, regardless of who they’re, whichever part of the society they arrive from, should have a voice that voice must be revered, to be listened to be appreciated. And I really feel that voice is an asset, he talked about.

In his sort out, Gandhi moreover took a dig on the ruling BJP authorities, saying it is “threatening” the people and “misusing” the nation’s corporations.

“The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies. The Bharat Jodo Yatra started because all the instruments that we needed to connect with the people were controlled by the BJP-RSS,” he talked about.

“We were also finding that in some way, it had become quite difficult to act politically. And that’s why we decided to walk from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he talked about. Gandhi talked about the yatra carried the spirit of affection, respect and humility.

“If one studies history, it can be seen that all spiritual leaders including Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the nation in a similar way,” he talked about.

Gandhi talked about India is not what’s being confirmed inside the media which likes to promote a political narrative that is faraway from actuality, asserting that there is a “huge distortion”.

“It was very clear to me in the Yatra that it’s in the media’s interest to project these things, it helps the BJP. So, don’t think that everything you see in the media is the truth,” he talked about. “India is not what the media shows. The media likes to show a particular narrative. It likes to promote a political narrative that is actually not what is going on in India,” he talked about.

The Congress chief arrived proper right here on Tuesday on a three-city US tour all through which he’ll work along with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.

He had a first-hand experience of the American immigration system as he wanted to look forward to about two hours alongside alongside together with his totally different co-passengers on the Air India flight because of the widespread shortage of staff on the US airports.

People have been seen taking selfies with him and asking him questions.

He was seen interacting and mingling with totally different travellers on the San Francisco airport.

Last week, Indian Overseas Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda talked about Gandhi’s go to is geared towards promoting shared values and a imaginative and prescient of precise democracy.

“The operate of his (Gandhi’s) journey is to connect, work collectively and begin a model new dialog with diversified individuals, institutions and media, along with the Indian diaspora that is rising in numbers inside the United States and abroad to promote the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the particular democracy with a cope with freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternate options world over,” Pitroda talked about in an announcement.