New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat saying that his remark that India got “true independence” after the Ram temple consecration amounts to treason and is an insult to every Indian.
Speaking at the inauguration of the new Congress headquarters here, Gandhi said every party worker is fighting this battle of ideologies under difficult circumstances where institutions have been captured by the BJP and the RSS and investigative agencies are being used against opposition leaders.
The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha also hit out at the Election Commission and alleged that there is a “serious problem” with the country’s election system.
“Mohan Bhagwat dares to inform the nation every 2-3 days what he thinks about the independent movement, Constitution. What he said yesterday is treason because it states that the Constitution is invalid, and the fight against the British was invalid. He dares to say this publicly, in any other country, he would be arrested and tried,” Rahul Gandhi said in his speech.
The Rae Bareli MP said that to say that India did not get Independence in 1947 was an insult to every single Indian person.
“It’s about time we stop listening to this nonsense that these people think they can just keep parroting out and shouting and screaming,” Rahul Gandhi added.
“After India got political independence from the British on August 15, 1947, a written Constitution was made according to the path shown by that specific vision, which comes out of the ‘self’ of the country, but the document was not run according to the spirit of the vision at that time,” Mohan Bhagwat said.
The RSS chief said the date of the Ram Mandir consecration should be celebrated as “Pratishtha Dwadashi” as the true independence of Bharat, which had faced “parachakra” (enemy attack) for several centuries, was established on this day.
