Emergency was a ‘mistake’, Rahul Gandhi says he was criticized for holding party elections

Making a big statement on Tuesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the Emergency imposed by his grandmother and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a “mistake”. During a virtual conversation with Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornwell University in the US, the Congress MP said that what happened during that period was “wrong”, but that it was fundamentally different from the current scenario, because the Congress had at any point But did not attempt to capture the institutional of the country. Structure. “I think that was a mistake. Absolutely, it was a mistake. And my grandmother (Indira Gandhi) said as much, ”he said. The Emergency was imposed by Indira Gandhi for a period of 21 months from 1975 to 1977, when the fundamental rights of citizens were curbed. Gandhi further said that his party has never misused India’s institutional structure. Targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party, Gandhi alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was doing something “fundamentally different” and filling the nation’s institutions with its people. He said that even if the BJP loses in the elections, it is an impossible task to get its people out in the institutional structure. LIVE: My dialogue with Professor Kaushik Basu at the level of Youth Congress and NSUI. “I am the first person who says that democratic elections are absolutely important within the party,” he said. However, Gandhi wondered why BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) did not raise any questions about the lack of internal democracy. He said that the question of internal democracy is raised for the Congress because “we are an ideological party whose ideology is of the Constitution and equality”. When asked about the death of his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, he said, The incident prompted him to “understand violence”. Gandhi said that he saw the death of his father as he was fighting several armies at that time. Rahul Gandhi in his conversation with Prof Basu also criticized the BJP government for keeping the media and judiciary under control. .