Facing backlash from allies over his latest remarks on the regional events, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi backtracked from his stand, saying that the Grand Old Party respects regional outfits and doesn’t need to be the Big Daddy whereas asserting that the battle in opposition to the BJP might be a “group effort”.
“The point I made in Udaipur, which was misconstrued, is that it is an ideological battle now. This means that of course we respect (ally) the DMK as a Tamil political organisation, but the Congress is the party that has the ideology at the national level,” Gandhi stated on Friday on the ‘Ideas for India’ convention in London.
The Wayanad MP additional stated, “We have to coordinate with our friends in the opposition. I don’t view the Congress as the ‘big daddy.’ It is a group effort with the opposition. But it is a fight to regain India.”
The former Congress president additionally stated that regional events have their very own area, and the Congress has its personal. “However, the ideological battle is taking place between the national vision of the RSS and that of the Congress.”
His remarks on the Congress’ ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur that regional events can’t battle the BJP-RSS as they lack ideology had upset a number of the regional allies.
Party’s Bihar ally RJD had requested Gandhi to take a look at latest electoral historical past of regional events placing up a robust battle in opposition to the BJP because it took a swipe at him for his important feedback geared toward them, saying the Congress chief’s claims had been “bizarre” and never in sync together with his personal social gathering’s stand.
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