Ideology of RSS-BJP has set Manipur on fire, claims Rahul Gandhi | India News

NEW DELHI: Escalating the attack on the BJP leadership, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not visited the strife-torn Manipur because it is the RSS-BJP ideology that has set the state on fire. He said BJP is only interested in power and has no empathy for the suffering of people.

Rahul said Modi has refused to visit Manipur when the country expected him to fly at least to the state capital Imphal. In contrast, he said, a PM from Congress in the current situation would have stationed himself in the troubled state. “Modi is the PM of a select few, of RSS. He has nothing to do with Manipur. He knows that his ideology has set Manipur on fire. The pain of Manipur, of the women assaulted there, have had no effect on him. I can say with authority that the PM felt no pain for Manipur,” he told a Youth Congress conclave.
Interestingly, Rahul also asserted the primacy of Congress in the ideological fight against BJP-RSS that he said is raging in the country. “There are many parties, there are parties in the opposition also, but the ideological fight that is on, is between that of RSS-BJP and the Congress ideology,” he said.

In a reference to the PM recently likening the “INDIA” alliance to a terrorist group and East India company, Rahul Gandhi said Modi is “so blind with the arrogance of power” that when the opposition parties adopted a beautiful name “INDIA” for their grouping, “Modi even started abusing India, without thinking that he was abusing the pious name of ‘Hindustan’.”
As the Parliament continued to face turbulence over the opposition’s demand that the PM give a statement on the disturbances in the northeastern state, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge lashed out at Modi’s visit to Rajasthan on Thursday.
“The PM is not ready to speak in Parliament, but has gone to Rajasthan to give political speeches in the garb of inaugurating medical colleges,” he said, leading a protest of allies on the Parliament premises. Kharge called the BJP government a “blot on humanity” for its “indifference” to the plight of Manipur.
Rahul said, ” BJP-RSS only want power and can do anything for it. For power, they will burn Manipur, they will burn the entire country, be it Haryana, Punjab, UP.” He exhorted the Youth Congress workers to connect with the hardships and sufferings of the common man, telling them that the spirit of the Bharat Jodo Yatra of spreading brotherhood should be their guiding principle.