Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday stated those that had been afraid of going through the fact and the BJP had been free to depart the get together, whereas fearless leaders exterior the Congress must be introduced in.
Addressing social media staff of the get together at a web-based occasion, Gandhi stated those that had been afraid had left the get together and cited the instance of Jyotiraditya Scindia.
“There are many people who are not scared, but are outside the Congress. All these people are ours. Bring them in, and those scared within our party should be shunted out,” he informed the social media staff.
“They are RSS people and they should go, let them enjoy. We do not want them, they are not needed. We want fearless people. This is our ideology. This is my basic message to you,” he additionally stated.
Citing the instance of Scindia, sources stated he informed the employees, “He had to save his house and he got scared and he joined the RSS.”
Quite a lot of senior Congress leaders have give up the get together to affix the BJP within the latest previous. These embody Scindia and Jitin Prasada. Maharashtra Congress leaders Narayan Rane and Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil had additionally give up in 2019, in addition to actor Khushboo Sundar.
This is the primary time Gandhi addressed round 3,500 get together staff of the Congress social media division by way of video convention utilizing Zoom.
Gandhi additionally interacted personally with round 10 younger staff from completely different fields, the get together sources stated.
He additionally gave them the message that he was all the time with them.
He requested the social media members to not be afraid of speaking to him as they had been part of his household. “You are talking to your brother and you should not be scared,” he informed them.
“You should not be scared and you will never see me being afraid,” he stated, including that the Congress needs to present equal rights to all however the RSS needs to profit only some.
Senior get together chief and former Telangana chief Uttam Kumar Reddy quoted Mahatma Gandhi to say that Rahul Gandhi was following in his footsteps.
“‘The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear’ ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
“Our leader Shri Rahul Gandhi following in the footsteps of the Mahatma. To defeat the hate propagated by the RSS-BJP, the Congress needs fearless people, not cowards,” Reddy tweeted, sharing a video of Rahul Gandhi.