Rahul Gandhi in USA: Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar had been NRIs

Addressing the Indian Diaspora in New York on Monday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi claimed that the essential factor architects of newest India had been all Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who saved an open ideas regarding the exterior world. 

The Congress chief, who’s on the ultimate legs of his ongoing three-city tour of the US, acknowledged all excellent leaders associated to the nation’s freedom wrestle, along with Mahatma Gandhi, BR Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Subhash Chandra Bose, had been NRIs who saved an open ideas regarding the exterior world. “The central architect of modern India, Mahatma Gandhi, was an NRI. The foundation for India’s freedom movement was laid in South Africa…Nehru, BR Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose, all were NRIs and had an open mind about the outside world,” he acknowledged. 

His remark assumes significance as a result of the BJP, which holds the reins of administration on the Centre, has normally accused him of sullying India’s image on abroad soil. 

The saffron get collectively has moreover alleged a much bigger world narrative to defame India. 

Continuing alongside together with his offensive in opposition to the saffron get collectively, the Congress chief acknowledged the nation faces a battle between two ideologies — one espoused by the Congress and the other by the BJP and its ideological dad or mum, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). 

“There is a fight between two ideologies in India — one that we (Congress) represent and other that is espoused by the BJP and the RSS,” the Congress chief claimed. 

Further, he added that the concepts and beliefs that the Congress holds costly are the an identical as that of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. 

He claimed that the ideas espoused and propagated by the BJP and RSS had been that of Nathuram Godse, a rightwing chief who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. 

“The ideology that we follow is the ideology of the Mahatma Gandhi, an NRI and a kind and a simple man who propagated non-violence and had a lifelong quest for the truth. However, the ideology that BJP and RSS follow is that of Nathuram Godse, a violent and angry man unable to face the reality of his own life,” Rahul claimed.

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