‘Can meet, hug Varun however can’t settle for that ideology’: Rahul Gandhi on cousin
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HOSHIARPUR: When Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was requested a query on the potential for reaching out to his cousin and BJP MP Varun Gandhi, he mentioned their ideologies don’t match.
“I can never go to an RSS office. You can slit my throat, but I will not go. My family has an ideology, it has a thought system,” he mentioned at a press convention right here on the sidelines of his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“I can meet him, hug him. But I cannot accept that ideology, that is impossible,” he mentioned on Tuesday.
His remarks on Varun Gandhi come amid hypothesis that the BJP MP, who typically has been essential of his personal social gathering, could be becoming a member of the Congress.
To a query, the Congress chief mentioned Varun is within the BJP and if he walks into the yatra, he’ll face an issue, implying that the saffron social gathering may object.
He then accused the RSS and the BJP of controlling establishments. “There is pressure on all the institutions. There is a pressure on the press, there is a pressure on bureaucracy, there is a pressure on the Election Commission, they put pressure on the judiciary,” he charged.
Normal democratic processes within the nation are actually “missing”, he claimed. “This is not a fight between one political party and another political party. It is now a fight between the institutions which were captured by them and the opposition. Out of which one factor is EVM,” he mentioned to a query on Electronic Voting Machines.
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Gandhi, whose foot march is passing by way of Punjab, additionally took a swipe on the ruling AAP authorities within the state, saying Punjab needs to be run from Punjab solely, not from Delhi.
“It is a historical fact. If it is run from Delhi, then people of Punjab will not accept it. It is not political but it is a fact,” he additional mentioned.
Gandhi on Monday had mentioned that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann shouldn’t be distant managed and will run the state independently.
On the Shiromani Akali Dal elevating questions on his go to to Amritsar’s Golden Temple and in search of his apology for Operation Bluestar and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Gandhi mentioned the previous prime minister Manmohan Singh had made his place and that of the Congress very clear.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has additionally achieved that and “I fully endorse what (former) Prime Minister Singh ji and Sonia Gandhi ji said. I have also made my stance abundantly clear in the past,” he mentioned.
Gandhi then mentioned there was no safety lapse within the march on Tuesday after a person got here dashing to fulfill him and tried to hug him.
“I do not know why you are calling that a lapse. I think the person was checked by the security people, he was a bit overexcited. There is quite a lot of enthusiasm for the Yatra. Many people get overexcited and that was the case where he was a bit extra charged up, so there is no problem in that. It has happened many times before. I wouldn’t call that a security lapse,” mentioned Gandhi.
The man rushed in direction of Gandhi to hug him in the course of the yatra however was stopped by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. Inspector General of Police G S Dhillon mentioned there was no safety breach.
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The march, which began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7, will conclude in Srinagar by January 30, with Gandhi hoisting the nationwide flag in the summertime capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
It has thus far coated Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
HOSHIARPUR: When Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was requested a query on the potential for reaching out to his cousin and BJP MP Varun Gandhi, he mentioned their ideologies don’t match.
“I can never go to an RSS office. You can slit my throat, but I will not go. My family has an ideology, it has a thought system,” he mentioned at a press convention right here on the sidelines of his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“I can meet him, hug him. But I cannot accept that ideology, that is impossible,” he mentioned on Tuesday.
His remarks on Varun Gandhi come amid hypothesis that the BJP MP, who typically has been essential of his personal social gathering, could be becoming a member of the Congress.
To a query, the Congress chief mentioned Varun is within the BJP and if he walks into the yatra, he’ll face an issue, implying that the saffron social gathering may object.
He then accused the RSS and the BJP of controlling establishments. “There is pressure on all the institutions. There is a pressure on the press, there is a pressure on bureaucracy, there is a pressure on the Election Commission, they put pressure on the judiciary,” he charged.
Normal democratic processes within the nation are actually “missing”, he claimed. “This is not a fight between one political party and another political party. It is now a fight between the institutions which were captured by them and the opposition. Out of which one factor is EVM,” he mentioned to a query on Electronic Voting Machines.
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Gandhi, whose foot march is passing by way of Punjab, additionally took a swipe on the ruling AAP authorities within the state, saying Punjab needs to be run from Punjab solely, not from Delhi.
“It is a historical fact. If it is run from Delhi, then people of Punjab will not accept it. It is not political but it is a fact,” he additional mentioned.
Gandhi on Monday had mentioned that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann shouldn’t be distant managed and will run the state independently.
On the Shiromani Akali Dal elevating questions on his go to to Amritsar’s Golden Temple and in search of his apology for Operation Bluestar and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Gandhi mentioned the previous prime minister Manmohan Singh had made his place and that of the Congress very clear.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has additionally achieved that and “I fully endorse what (former) Prime Minister Singh ji and Sonia Gandhi ji said. I have also made my stance abundantly clear in the past,” he mentioned.
Gandhi then mentioned there was no safety lapse within the march on Tuesday after a person got here dashing to fulfill him and tried to hug him.
“I do not know why you are calling that a lapse. I think the person was checked by the security people, he was a bit overexcited. There is quite a lot of enthusiasm for the Yatra. Many people get overexcited and that was the case where he was a bit extra charged up, so there is no problem in that. It has happened many times before. I wouldn’t call that a security lapse,” mentioned Gandhi.
The man rushed in direction of Gandhi to hug him in the course of the yatra however was stopped by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring. Inspector General of Police G S Dhillon mentioned there was no safety breach.
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The march, which began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7, will conclude in Srinagar by January 30, with Gandhi hoisting the nationwide flag in the summertime capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
It has thus far coated Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
