Govt working on the idea that it doesn’t must hearken to anyone: Rahul

Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday mentioned that the BJP-led Centre has “shut down the feedback loop” which was there to gauge and sense the response and response of the individuals on varied problems with governance, and alleged that the federal government is working on the idea that it doesn’t must hearken to anyone because it controls the media area and the narrative.
Gandhi made the remarks throughout an interplay with former American diplomat Nicholas Burns, who’s now with the Harvard Kennedy School.
Gandhi mentioned lots of people are getting discontented due to the best way the BJP is behaving. “It is very happening very quickly. So the opportunity for us is very huge. We have to redefine ourselves though,” he mentioned, with out elaborating how he plans to redefine the Congress.

He mentioned the Congress, when it was in energy, would get “constant feedback” on “a pressure coming at us” – be it from farmers, labourers or the massive enterprise. “There was a suggestions loop…What amazed me was how fast, how efficient and the way highly effective it was. It was proper in our face. We virtually couldn’t keep away from it. And that suggestions loop is now shut.
“The ability to put your message so forcefully when you control the media automatically stops you from listening…. And it puts you in a mindset… ‘I control the media space, I control the narrative …so I don’t really need to listen to anybody’ and that is how you operate,” he mentioned.

“…It is a style of governance… It comes from a centralisation of power and a belief that centralised power understands everything,” he mentioned.