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New Delhi: In his first trip abroad as the Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi Sunday drew a contrast between politicians in the US and India, saying that while an American political leader offers the dream of a promised land, an Indian leader listens to what others are saying...
But it was Rahuls attempts to dovetail politics with philosophy that stood out on his day one of engagements in the US...
At a separate event in Dallas, where he addressed the Indian diaspora, Rahul attacked the RSSideological parent of the BJPsaying that while the Congress saw India as a multiplicity of ideas and a union of states just like the USA, for the Sangh, India was one idea.. This is the fight, and the fight was crystallised in the election, when millions of people in India clearly understood that the Prime Minister of India is attacking the Constitution of India they were saying that the BJP is attacking our tradition, attacking our language, attacking our states, attacking our histories, and most importantly, what they understood was that anybody who is attacking the Constitution of India, is also attacking our religious tradition, Rahul said.. And immediately after the poll results, he said, the fear of the BJP vanished..
In his first speech as the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha in July, Rahul had sparked a political firestorm by accusing the BJP of spreading violence, hatred and lies which, he said, were against the basic tenets of Hinduism advocated by Lord Shiva...
At the Texas university Sunday, Rahul said the Bharat Jodo Yatra had also introduced the idea of love in the political discourse of the country, adding that it was a novel attempt not just in India, but globally as well...
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