In a scathing attack on Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday asserted that the Prime Minister would never succeed in realising his dream of Congress-free India as in the past the British had failed in a similar goal and were thrown out of the country.
“Do you remember the slogan ‘Congress-mukt Bharat' when Modi came to power; even the Britishers failed in making Congress-mukt Bharat. How would Modi do this? The Britishers were then the superpower like the United States is today…they were thrown out of the country,” the Wayanad MP said responding to a felicitation by the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) at Tilak Bhavan at Dadar in Mumbai.
“Modi thinks that his relations with (Gautam) Adani can make India Congress-free,” he said amid thunderous applause and cheers.
Speaking at the Congress forum after the conclusion of the two-day I.N.D.I.A meeting in Mumbai, Gandhi said that he wants to spread love.
“We would go to the enemy's house in the ‘nafrat ka bazaar’ and open ‘mohabbat ki dukan’. We would conquer hatred with love,” he said.
Rahul flags Ladakh issue
Earlier at the press conference after I.N.D.I.A meeting, Gandhi also flagged the Ladakh issue reiterating that China has occupied Indian land.
"There is clearly an accommodation that has happened between the government and China," he accused.
"I spent a week in Ladakh. I went to Pangong Tso Lake, right in front of where the Chinese are and I had detailed discussions (with the people of Ladakh). Probably the most detailed discussions that any politician outside Ladakh has had with the people of Ladakh and specifically, the shepherds of Pangong Tso Lake,” he said.
“The leaders of Pangong Tso Lake area and the common people living there categorically told me that the Chinese have taken Indian land. They categorically told me that the Prime Minister is lying about the fact that the Chinese have not taken Indian land,” he said.
“Every single person in Ladakh knows that the people of India have been betrayed by the Modi government. There is clearly an accommodation that has happened between the government and the Chinese. There is clearly a change on the borders,” he said.
"Our shepherds themselves told us that they are not being allowed into the areas where they were allowed (earlier). So, this is known to everybody, unfortunately our press doesn’t raise these issues, but these are issues of national importance, of national security and it is extremely shameful, what has happened in Ladakh,” he said.