‘Those Scared in Congress Can Leave and Join RSS,’ Says Rahul Gandhi

‘He had to save his house and he got scared and he joined the RSS,’ Gandhi reportedly said of Jyotiraditya Scindia.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that those who were afraid of facing reality and the Bharatiya Janata Party were free to leave the party and join the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, while fearless leaders outside the party should be brought in.

“There are many people who are not scared, but are outside the Congress. All these people are ours. Bring them in, and those scared within our party should be shunted out,” he told the social media workers.

Addressing the party’s 3,500 social media workers at an online event, Gandhi said those who were afraid have left the party and reportedly cited the example of Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is now a BJP minister.

“They are RSS people and they should go, let them enjoy. We do not want them, they are not needed. We want fearless people. This is our ideology. This is my basic message to you,” he also said.

He said this when the party workers asked him about the cases being registered against all those who have raised their voice against the BJP.

The workers also asked Gandhi pointedly about leaders like Scindia who were quitting the party, PTI has reported.

PTI also quoted sources as having said that Gandhi told the workers, “He had to save his house and he got scared and he joined the RSS.”

A number of senior Congress leaders have quit the party to join the BJP in the recent past. These include Scindia and Jitin Prasada. Maharashtra Congress leaders Narayan Rane and Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil had also quit in 2019, besides actor Khushboo Sundar.

Rahul Gandhi also urged the party workers to bring in people who want to save the country and who believe in the ideology of the country and the Congress.

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Gandhi also personally interacted with around 10 young workers from different fields, party sources reportedly told PTI.

Gandhi asked them not to be afraid of anyone and cited the example of Mahatma Gandhi, who was never afraid of the British despite their atrocities.

He asked social media members not to be afraid of talking to him as they were a part of his family. “You are talking to your brother and you should not be scared,” he told them.

“You should not be scared and you will never see me being afraid,” he said, adding that the Congress wants to give equal rights to all but the RSS wants to benefit only a few.

Senior party leader and former Telangana chief Uttam Kumar Reddy quoted Mahatma Gandhi to say that Rahul Gandhi was following in his footsteps.


(With PTI inputs)