New Delhi: Exuding confidence a couple of good exhibiting within the upcoming meeting polls, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday mentioned that as of now the Congress is definitely successful Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, most likely successful Telangana, and there’s a “very shut” contest in Rajasthan which the social gathering believes it’s going to emerge victorious in. Gandhi additionally referred to the row over BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s derogatory remarks towards BSP chief Danish Ali in Lok Sabha, alleging that the BJP indulges in such ways to distract from the demand for a caste census.
He asserted that the opposition is adapting and dealing collectively and the BJP is “in for a shock in 2024” basic elections. Talking at a conclave organised by the Pratidin Media Community of Assam, Gandhi additionally mentioned the concept of ‘One Nation, One Election’ was aimed toward distracting from actual problems with the individuals. “It is one of many BJP’s distraction methods,” he asserted.
The principle points in India are focus of wealth, big inequality in wealth, large unemployment, big unfairness in the direction of the decrease caste, OBCs, and tribal communities, and worth rise, he mentioned. “Now, the BJP cannot contest these. So ‘let’s have Mr. Bidhuri make an announcement. Let’s get collectively and form of have elections collectively. Let’s change the title of India’. That is all distraction. We all know it, we perceive it. And we’re not going to allow them to do it,” he mentioned.
He asserted that his social gathering not successful any of the states within the upcoming state polls is out of the query. Meeting polls are scheduled to happen in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram.
Requested concerning the social gathering’s possibilities, Gandhi mentioned, “I’d say, proper now, we’re most likely successful Telangana, we’re definitely successful Madhya Pradesh, we’re definitely successful Chhattisgarh. Rajasthan, we’re very shut, and we predict we will win. That’s what it’s wanting like, and by the best way, that can be what the BJP internally is saying.”
The Congress learnt a vital lesson in Karnataka that the BJP wins elections by distracting and never permitting us to assemble our narrative and so we fought the polls setting up our social gathering’s narrative.
“What you’re seeing as we speak, this gents Mr. Bidhuri after which all of the sudden Mr. Nishikant Dubey, all that is the BJP attempting to distract from the concept of the caste census. They know that the caste census is a basic factor that the individuals of India need they usually do not wish to have that dialogue,” the previous Congress chief mentioned.
“Each time we carry a degree on the desk, they use this sort of stuff to distract us and we now have learnt now cope with it,” he mentioned.
“What we did in Karnataka is we gave a transparent imaginative and prescient for the state, ‘that is the social safety programme that we’re going to arrange for you’ after which we management the narrative.
“If you happen to take a look at the Telangana polls, we’re controlling the narrative, the BJP is just not even within the narrative, it’s gone. The BJP has been decimated and it’s over in Telangana,” Gandhi mentioned.
He claimed that the Congress is controlling the narrative in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh within the run as much as the polls there.
“If you happen to converse to individuals in Rajasthan on what’s the challenge by way of anti-incumbency, they’ll let you know they like the federal government,” he mentioned.
“We’re adapting in a state of affairs the place the BJP controls the media. Do not assume the opposition is just not able to adapting, we’re adapting, we’re working collectively, we’re 60 per cent of India’s inhabitants. BJP is in for a shock in 2024 (Lok Sabha polls),” he mentioned.
Gandhi additionally mentioned that the ladies’s reservation invoice might be carried out “tomorrow morning” and all that’s required to be carried out is to state that 33 per cent of the seats can be reserved within the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas.
There isn’t a connection between ladies’s reservation and census or between ladies’s reservation and delimitation, he argued.
Gandhi additionally claimed that the federal government got here up with the concept of a particular session to distract from media reviews in newspapers akin to Monetary Instances on the Adani matter.
“The very first thing they have been planning on doing was to vary India to Bharat… however there was an enormous backlash, they realised individuals won’t like this, so put that within the background and got here up with this,” he mentioned.
The federal government is saying that the ladies will reap good thing about the invoice after 10 years however the Congress desires it now, he added Through the interplay, Gandhi additionally talked about his current Ladakh go to throughout which he toured the Union Territory on a motorbike.
He mentioned it allowed him to proceed the Bharat Jodo format differently.
On his learnings from his over 4,000 km Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi mentioned that in 21st century India, the communication structure is so captured by the BJP that it’s virtually unimaginable to talk to the individuals of India via that.
“It is rather clear that my YouTube channel, my Twitter, they’re all suppressed. The yatra was a necessity for us. It doesn’t matter what the opposition says, it doesn’t undergo with out distortion within the nationwide media,” he mentioned.
“Large studying was old skool communication going and assembly individuals, which Mahatma Gandhi ji pioneered within the trendy period, others pioneered in older occasions, that also works,” he mentioned.
Irrespective of how a lot vitality the BJP put, regardless of how a lot the media tried to distort, it didn’t work, as a result of there was a direct connection, Gandhi mentioned.
“For each story BJP media was attempting to place in there have been hundreds of movies coming in to counter that. It was nearly like a reverse seize of the mass media,” he mentioned.
This downside is not only an Indian downside as it’s being confronted the world over, he argued.
“For me, private studying was much more attention-grabbing. It’s that the place you assume your restrict lies, is nowhere your restrict truly lies. Your restrict is far additional than you may think about,” he mentioned.
