By way of PTI
SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned correctly” and the Congress birthday celebration is operating against it and it’s “coming alongside very properly”, Rahul Gandhi has informed Indian American citizens right here, bringing up his birthday celebration’s emphatic victory within the fresh meeting elections in Karnataka.
Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an match on the Silicon Valley Campus of the College of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi mentioned he can obviously see “vulnerabilities” within the BJP.
As a political entrepreneur, I will obviously see vulnerabilities within the BJP. The BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is aligned correctly, he mentioned.
In the event you take a look at the Karnataka elections, the overall sense is that the Congress Birthday celebration fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. However what isn’t smartly understood is the mechanics that we used,” he mentioned.
The Congress birthday celebration used a fully other option to combating an election and construction a story, Gandhi mentioned, including that components of what took place in Karnataka got here out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
Within the Would possibly 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Meeting, the Congress received 135 seats, whilst incumbent BJP and the previous high minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) were given 66 and 19, respectively.
Gandhi mentioned within the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 occasions more cash than the Congress birthday celebration.
He mentioned the rustic wanted an alternate imaginative and prescient to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), along with having a united Opposition within the 2024 common elections.
At the subject of opposition team spirit, we’re operating against it and it’s coming alongside very properly. However I believe as a way to defeat the BJP, you wish to have extra than simply opposition team spirit. Simply opposition team spirit, personally, isn’t going to be sufficient to do the task. I believe you wish to have an alternate imaginative and prescient to the BJP, he mentioned.
A part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was once step one in proposing one of these imaginative and prescient. It is the imaginative and prescient that every one opposition events are aligned with. No opposition birthday celebration would disagree with the speculation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he mentioned.
Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was once a Gandhi-led mass motion geared toward uniting India. The yatra started on September 7 from Kanyakumari, handed thru 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.
All the way through the process the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public conferences, over 100 nook conferences and 13 press meetings.
He had over 275 deliberate strolling interactions and greater than 100 sitting interactions.
“So, I believe bringing the opposition in combination is essential, but additionally aligning the opposition and making the folks of India remember that there isn’t just a bunch of opposition events that experience mixed however a proposed future of the rustic. And we are operating on the ones issues, Gandhi mentioned.
The ex-Wayanad MP mentioned it’s the president of the Congress birthday celebration who will make a decision the high ministerial candidate.
We imagine that everyone in India, irrespective of who they’re, whichever a part of the society they arrive from, will have to have a voice that voice will have to be revered, to be listened to be favored. And I believe that voice is an asset, he mentioned.
In his deal with, Gandhi additionally took a dig on the ruling BJP executive, pronouncing it’s “threatening” the folks and “misusing” the rustic’s businesses.
“The BJP is threatening other folks and misusing executive businesses. The Bharat Jodo Yatra began as a result of all of the tools that we would have liked to connect to the folks had been managed by way of the BJP-RSS,” he mentioned.
“We had been additionally discovering that one way or the other, it had grow to be relatively tricky to behave politically. And that is the reason why we made up our minds to stroll from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he mentioned. Gandhi mentioned the yatra carried the spirit of love, admire and humility.
“If one research historical past, it may be observed that every one religious leaders together with Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the country similarly,” he mentioned.
Gandhi mentioned India isn’t what’s being proven within the media which likes to advertise a political narrative this is some distance from truth, saying that there’s a “massive distortion”.
“It was once very transparent to me within the Yatra that it is within the media’s hobby to undertaking this stuff, it is helping the BJP. So, do not assume that the whole thing you spot within the media is the reality,” he mentioned. “India isn’t what the media displays. The media likes to turn a selected narrative. It likes to advertise a political narrative this is if truth be told no longer what’s going on in India,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief arrived right here on Tuesday on a three-city US excursion all through which he’s going to engage with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.
He had a first-hand revel in of the American immigration gadget as he needed to look ahead to about two hours along side his different co-passengers at the Air India flight as a result of the typical scarcity of body of workers at the United States airports.
Folks had been observed taking selfies with him and asking him questions.
He was once observed interacting and mingling with different travellers on the San Francisco airport.
Remaining week, Indian In another country Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda mentioned Gandhi’s seek advice from is geared toward selling shared values and a imaginative and prescient of actual democracy.
“The aim of his (Gandhi’s) commute is to glue, engage and start a brand new dialog with quite a lot of people, establishments and media, together with the Indian diaspora this is rising in numbers in the US and in a foreign country to advertise the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the true democracy with a focal point on freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternatives international over, Pitroda mentioned in a observation.
SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned correctly” and the Congress birthday celebration is operating against it and it’s “coming alongside very properly”, Rahul Gandhi has informed Indian American citizens right here, bringing up his birthday celebration’s emphatic victory within the fresh meeting elections in Karnataka.
Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an match on the Silicon Valley Campus of the College of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi mentioned he can obviously see “vulnerabilities” within the BJP.
As a political entrepreneur, I will obviously see vulnerabilities within the BJP. The BJP may also be defeated if the Opposition is aligned correctly, he mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
In the event you take a look at the Karnataka elections, the overall sense is that the Congress Birthday celebration fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. However what isn’t smartly understood is the mechanics that we used,” he mentioned.
The Congress birthday celebration used a fully other option to combating an election and construction a story, Gandhi mentioned, including that components of what took place in Karnataka got here out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.
Within the Would possibly 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Meeting, the Congress received 135 seats, whilst incumbent BJP and the previous high minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) were given 66 and 19, respectively.
Gandhi mentioned within the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 occasions more cash than the Congress birthday celebration.
He mentioned the rustic wanted an alternate imaginative and prescient to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), along with having a united Opposition within the 2024 common elections.
At the subject of opposition team spirit, we’re operating against it and it’s coming alongside very properly. However I believe as a way to defeat the BJP, you wish to have extra than simply opposition team spirit. Simply opposition team spirit, personally, isn’t going to be sufficient to do the task. I believe you wish to have an alternate imaginative and prescient to the BJP, he mentioned.
A part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was once step one in proposing one of these imaginative and prescient. It is the imaginative and prescient that every one opposition events are aligned with. No opposition birthday celebration would disagree with the speculation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he mentioned.
Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was once a Gandhi-led mass motion geared toward uniting India. The yatra started on September 7 from Kanyakumari, handed thru 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.
All the way through the process the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public conferences, over 100 nook conferences and 13 press meetings.
He had over 275 deliberate strolling interactions and greater than 100 sitting interactions.
“So, I believe bringing the opposition in combination is essential, but additionally aligning the opposition and making the folks of India remember that there isn’t just a bunch of opposition events that experience mixed however a proposed future of the rustic. And we are operating on the ones issues, Gandhi mentioned.
The ex-Wayanad MP mentioned it’s the president of the Congress birthday celebration who will make a decision the high ministerial candidate.
We imagine that everyone in India, irrespective of who they’re, whichever a part of the society they arrive from, will have to have a voice that voice will have to be revered, to be listened to be favored. And I believe that voice is an asset, he mentioned.
In his deal with, Gandhi additionally took a dig on the ruling BJP executive, pronouncing it’s “threatening” the folks and “misusing” the rustic’s businesses.
“The BJP is threatening other folks and misusing executive businesses. The Bharat Jodo Yatra began as a result of all of the tools that we would have liked to connect to the folks had been managed by way of the BJP-RSS,” he mentioned.
“We had been additionally discovering that one way or the other, it had grow to be relatively tricky to behave politically. And that is the reason why we made up our minds to stroll from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he mentioned. Gandhi mentioned the yatra carried the spirit of love, admire and humility.
“If one research historical past, it may be observed that every one religious leaders together with Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the country similarly,” he mentioned.
Gandhi mentioned India isn’t what’s being proven within the media which likes to advertise a political narrative this is some distance from truth, saying that there’s a “massive distortion”.
“It was once very transparent to me within the Yatra that it is within the media’s hobby to undertaking this stuff, it is helping the BJP. So, do not assume that the whole thing you spot within the media is the reality,” he mentioned. “India isn’t what the media displays. The media likes to turn a selected narrative. It likes to advertise a political narrative this is if truth be told no longer what’s going on in India,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief arrived right here on Tuesday on a three-city US excursion all through which he’s going to engage with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.
He had a first-hand revel in of the American immigration gadget as he needed to look ahead to about two hours along side his different co-passengers at the Air India flight as a result of the typical scarcity of body of workers at the United States airports.
Folks had been observed taking selfies with him and asking him questions.
He was once observed interacting and mingling with different travellers on the San Francisco airport.
Remaining week, Indian In another country Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda mentioned Gandhi’s seek advice from is geared toward selling shared values and a imaginative and prescient of actual democracy.
“The aim of his (Gandhi’s) commute is to glue, engage and start a brand new dialog with quite a lot of people, establishments and media, together with the Indian diaspora this is rising in numbers in the US and in a foreign country to advertise the shared values and imaginative and prescient of the true democracy with a focal point on freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and alternatives international over, Pitroda mentioned in a observation.