Day after Kharge’s Opposition unity talk, Rahul targets Trinamool at Meghalaya campaign stop

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Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday likened the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to a classroom bully trying to impose one idea on the entire country and destroying Indias religious, cultural and linguistic diversity..

Gandhi addressed a public meeting in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya where the party is on a weak wicket..

His attack on the TMC comes a day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said at a public meeting in Nagaland that his party was in talks with other Opposition outfits and asserted that an alliance led by the Congress would come to power at the Centre in 2024...

But India is many, many different ideas, many different religions, many different communities, many different languages, many different cultures, he said.. Gandhi said, The BJP is attacking all our states..

Talking about the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi said the Congress was compelled to organise the cross-country march because the BJP and the RSS, who are running the Government in India today, have captured every single institution of the Indian state whether it is the Parliament, media, bureaucracy, the Election Commission or the judiciary all these institutions are under pressure and are being attacked by the ideology of the RSS and the BJP...

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