Is Modi running India the same way as Indira? No, says Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IBNS): Congress president Rahul Gandhi has disagreed that Prime Minister Narendra runs the country in the style of Indira Gandhi.
Speaking to Hindustan Times, Rahul said the comparison was "an insult to Indiraji".
“My grandmother’s (Indira's) decisions came from love and affection, her work was uniting in nature and she carried along people and cared for India’s poor,” he said. “Modi’s decisions come from anger and hatred and his decisions divide the country. And Mr Narendra Modi has absolutely no empathy for the weak and the poor.”
Hindustan Times, citing the views of analysts, says Indira did not allow any dissidence within and outside her party and took major decisions across ministries, a style apparently followed by Modi's office now.
Indira Gandhi also allegedly influenced the functioning of institutions, a charge the current government faces.
The Congress president, however, says his party does not function that way. He told HT: "Every institution in India is facing Mr Modi’s autocratic backlash. Mr Modi believes that he is the Lord of India, just like the British believed.”
“We have been in government, we have been in Opposition and we believe that you simply do not touch institutions or attack India’s federal structure," Rahul asserts.
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