New Delhi. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while talking to the students of Georgetown University in Washington DC, said that Congress in India is very capable and has the power to change itself, which he feels more than other political parties.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi said that the aggression with which he used to surround the Congress earlier, Congress has curbed his thinking and due to this Mr. Modi now gets trapped inside and outside the Parliament.
He said that if you look at the Congress party and compare it with other political parties, it has the ability to reinvent itself. There is an element in it which is present since the time of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and as a political organization, it has many very powerful qualities.
The Congress leader said that he was also harassed during the 2024 elections. He said that there came a time during the election when I was talking to the treasurer of the party and saying, “Look, your bank accounts have been frozen.” How will you contest elections if your bank accounts are frozen? We really had no answer then. Yet the Congress party contested the elections and basically destroyed the idea of Modi. You can see it reflected on Mr Modi’s face.
“Congress has basically destroyed the idea of Modi in this election. Mr Modi is now psychologically trapped even in Parliament. Outside Parliament he starts calling himself God. Mr Modi has had to stand in this situation because of the Congress,” the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha said.
“When you see the Prime Minister in Parliament now, he is psychologically trapped. He cannot compromise and now cannot understand how this has happened. It is surprising for me, and for the Congress party, to see this situation. It is not just a political party but a whole set of political ideologies.
Looking back, one of the reasons for its survival is the basic structure of the party. I sometimes make a distinction between the idea of the Congress, its philosophy, its value system and its organisation,” he said. They don’t overlap 100 percent, but when they get close they become very powerful.
