Congress Plenary Session: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday addressed the party’s 85th plenary session on its third day. The leader shared his experiences from the Bharat Jodo Yatra and also attacked the BJP-led Central government over various issues.
Responding to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s recent remarks, he said, “Was our economy very big when we were fighting with the Britishers.” He said that it is not ‘nationalism’ but ‘cowardice’.
Gandhi said that during the parliament session, he asked how businessman Gautam Adani reached the second spot among the world’s richest. “He got all benefits that no one gets. I only asked what the relationship is between PM and Adani. All BJP workers started saving Adani and said those who attack Adani are ‘desh drohi’,” he added.
“One cannot ask questions about Adani in Parliament; we will continue to ask questions till the truth comes out,” he said as quoted by PTI.
Talking about the Bharat Jodo Yatra, he said, “learned a lot. I walked for my nation from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Thousands connected to me and party during the yatra. I listened to all problems of farmers & realized their pain.”
He said that PM Modi said that even he hoisted the Indian tricolour at Lal Chowk, but he could not understand the difference. “Narendra Modi hoisted the tricolour with 15-20 people of the BJP but ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ unfurled the flag with lakhs of the youth of Kashmir.”
The Prime Minister says that I too hoisted the tricolor at Lal Chowk.
PM didn’t understand the difference.
Narendra Modi ji along with 15-20 BJP people hoisted the tricolor at Lal Chowk.
‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ hoisted the tricolor with the hands of lakhs of youth of Kashmir.
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“52 years past and I still don’t have a home, but when I reached Kashmir, it felt like home. Yatra was to make people of all castes and age groups feel at home. People were not talking about political things to me during yatra but it all changed when I reached Kashmir,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.
Rahul said that the yatra instilled love fo tricolour in the youth of Kashmir alleging that BJP had taken it away. “We instilled love for tricolour in the youth of Kashmir through Bharat Jodo Yatra, BJP had taken it away,” he said at the session.
He also said, “I Felt the pain of women, and youth during Bharat Jodo Yatra.”