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Congress person Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the BJP is proposing "elimination of the Constitution" that grants adjacent rights to each and vowed to make a strategy of opposition's absorption that volition win successful removing the enactment from power.
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Speaking astatine the Hertie School successful Berlin past week, helium besides alleged that the BJP has launched a full-scale battle and has captured the organization model of the state to assistance usage it arsenic a instrumentality for gathering its governmental power, and that is what the absorption is warring against.
In an hour-long video released by the Congress connected Monday (December 22, 2025), Mr. Gandhi said India's largest and analyzable ideology is simply a planetary asset, and the "assault" connected the Indian antiauthoritarian strategy is besides an onslaught connected the planetary antiauthoritarian system.
"What the BJP is proposing fundamentally is the elimination of the Constitution. Elimination of the thought of equality betwixt states, elimination of the thought of equality betwixt languages and religions, elimination of the thought of the cardinal halfway of the Constitution, which is that each idiosyncratic volition person the aforesaid value," the person of absorption successful Lok Sabha said to a radical of students astatine the Hertie School.
In the video, 'Politics is the creation of listening', Mr. Gandhi said that erstwhile determination is an onslaught connected the antiauthoritarian system, the Opposition has to find ways to antagonistic it and not simply accidental that determination is simply a occupation with the elections.
"We volition woody with it, and we volition make a method, a strategy of absorption opposition that volition succeed. But, we're not warring the BJP. You person to recognize that we're warring their seizure of the Indian organization structure," helium said.
Answering queries of students, Mr. Gandhi claimed determination is simply a weaponisation of the organization framework.
"We fundamentally judge that determination is simply a occupation with the electoral machinery successful India. The 2nd happening is that determination is simply a wholesale seizure of our organization framework. There is simply a full-scale battle taking spot connected the organization model of our country," helium claimed.
The Congress person noted that determination is an ambiance successful India wherever the institutions are not performing the relation they should beryllium performing.
Mr. Gandhi said portion the Europeans struggled to physique a European Union, India built an economical and governmental national successful 1947, which was based connected the Constitution.
"If you are going to person immoderate speech astir ideology connected the planet, you cannot disregard by acold the largest and astir analyzable ideology successful the world. That is wherefore I accidental Indian ideology is simply a planetary nationalist good; it is not conscionable an Indian asset, it is simply a planetary asset.
"So erstwhile I speech of the onslaught connected the Indian antiauthoritarian system, I don't accidental it, but it is really an onslaught not conscionable connected the Indian antiauthoritarian system, it is an onslaught connected the planetary antiauthoritarian system," Mr. Gandhi observed.
Attacking the BJP, helium claimed that the Congress had intelligibly shown without a shadiness of a uncertainty that they "won" the Haryana election, and asserted that "we really don't consciousness that the Maharashtra predetermination was fair".
Mr. Gandhi besides attacked enforcement agencies similar the CBI and the ED and said that portion the Congress helped physique the organization framework, it ne'er viewed it arsenic its ain but that of the country.
"But, that's not however the BJP sees (it). It views the organization model of India arsenic belonging to them. So they usage it arsenic a instrumentality for gathering governmental power," helium alleged.
He alleged the ED and the CBI person been weaponised. "Going by the fig of cases that the ED and the CBI person against BJP radical and against the opposition, 1 would find that astir of them are governmental cases," helium said.
Mr. Gandhi besides attacked the economical exemplary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
PM Modi, the BJP and the RSS person fundamentally taken the economical models of Manmohan Singh and taken them close forward, helium claimed. "What Mr Modi is trying to bash economically cannot spell further... it is jammed," helium alleged.
About the INDIA bloc, helium said, "All parties of the confederation bash not hold with the basal ideology of the RSS... we are precise overmuch agreed connected that question."
"We person tactical contests, and we volition proceed to person them. But you volition spot that erstwhile it comes to the absorption requiring unity, that happens each time successful Parliament. We are precise united, and we volition contention the BJP connected laws that we disagree with," Mr. Gandhi added.
The Congress person was connected a circuit of Germany past week.
