Rahul Gandhi additionally spoke a couple of “very important lesson” the Congress learnt in Karnataka.

New Delhi:

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at the moment at an occasion in Delhi asserted that his social gathering will win the upcoming meeting elections in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan, and the BJP is in for a “surprise” within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He additionally spoke a couple of “very important lesson” the Congress learnt in Karnataka, the place they got here to energy earlier this 12 months, and have tailored accordingly.

“Right now, we are probably winning Telangana, we are certainly winning Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, we are very close in Rajasthan, and we think we will be able to win. That’s what BJP is also saying internally,” Mr Gandhi could be heard saying in a video posted on X by his social gathering.

The lesson from Karnataka was, the previous Congress president mentioned, that the BJP wins elections by distracting and never permitting them to assemble their very own narrative.

“And so what we did in Karnataka, we fought the election in a way where the BJP could not define the narrative. What you’re seeing today, Mr Bidhuri, and then suddenly this Nishikant Dubey, this is all the BJP trying to distract from the idea of the Caste census. They know that it’s a fundamental thing the people want, and they don’t want to have that discussion,” Rahul Gandhi mentioned, referring to BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s current communal slurs in opposition to BSP MP Danish Ali contained in the Lok Sabha.

“Whenever we bring a point to the table, they use this type of stuff to distract, and we have learnt now how to deal with it,” Mr Gandhi mentioned, including that in a scenario “where BJP controls the media”, they’re adapting and controlling the narrative among the many individuals. He gave examples of social welfare schemes in Rajasthan, claiming individuals again the state authorities due to them.

Speaking at a conclave organised by the Pratidin Media Network of Assam, Mr Gandhi additionally mentioned the thought of ‘One Nation, One Election’ was geared toward distracting from actual problems with the individuals.

“It’s one of the BJP’s distraction strategies,” he asserted.

The important points in India are focus of wealth, enormous inequality in wealth, large unemployment, enormous unfairness in the direction of the decrease caste, OBCs, and tribal communities, and value rise, he mentioned.

“Now, the BJP can’t contest those. So ‘let’s have Mr Bidhuri make a statement. Let’s get together and sort of have elections together. Let’s change the name of India’. This is all distraction. We know it, we understand it. And we’re not going to let them do it,” he mentioned.

Rahul Gandhi additionally alleged that the opposition events are dealing with a “financial and media attack”, however are doing effectively regardless of that.

“Go and ask any businessman in India what happens to them if they support an opposition party. If they were to write a cheque for any opposition party, ask them what happens to them,” he mentioned. 

The opposition bloc INDIA will not be preventing a political social gathering now, Mr Gandhi mentioned, however preventing the Indian state. “We are fighting to defend the idea of India. And that is why we have given our name INDIA,” he added.