The Congress on Wednesday hit out at RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat over his remarks that India’s ‘true independence’ was established not in 1947 but on Ram temple consecration day.
“Mohan Bhagwat dares to tell the country what he thinks about the independence movement and the Constitution. What he said yesterday is treason… Because he is stating that the Constitution is invalid and the fight against the British was invalid,” Gandhi said.
“To say that India did not get independence in 1947 is an insult to every Indian. And it is time to stop listening to this nonsense that these people think they can keep parroting out and shouting,” Gandhi said.
Emphasising that the new headquarters symbolises the foundations of the Constitution, Gandhi said to his party workers that they are fighting a “civilisational war with” the RSS as the ideologies of the saffron fold and Congress are in conflict.
“Do not think that we are fighting a fair fight. There is no fairness in this. If you believe that we are fighting a political organisation called the BJP, that we are fighting a political organisation called the RSS, you have not understood what is going on,” Gandhi said. “The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of our country. We are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian state itself,” he said.
The BJP was quick to pounce upon the Congress MP’s remarks, saying that the “ugly truth” of the party “stands exposed by their own leader”. Firing the first salvo, Union Minister and BJP chief JP Nadda said Gandhi and his “ecosystem” have close links with “urban naxals” and the “Deep State” who want to “defame, demean and discredit” India.
“Hidden no more, Congress’s ugly truth now stands exposed by their own leader. I ‘compliment’ Rahul Gandhi for saying clearly what the nation knows – that he is fighting the Indian state! His repeated actions have also strengthened this belief. Everything he has done or said has been in the direction of breaking India and dividing our society,” Nadda tweeted.
The BJP has repeatedly used the term ‘urban Naxals’ to attack anti-establishment protesters. “Rahul Gandhi has now declared open war against the Indian State itself. This is straight out of George Soros’s playbook, referring to the billionaire American-Hungarian investor. The BJP has on several occasions accused the Congress of colluding with Soros to destabilise the government.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said that the date of Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya should be celebrated as “Pratishtha Dwadashi”, as the “true independence” of Bharat, which faced “parachakra” (enemy attack) for several centuries.
