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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Friday (December 26, 2025) alleged that the BJP-RSS harvester is conspiring to weaken acquisition and institutions, stressing that acquisition needs state portion institutions volition beryllium tally by cognition and science, not by ideology.
In a station connected Facebook, Mr. Gandhi said helium met with students of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) astatine Jan Sansad recently, who reiterated the aforesaid superior concerns that students and teachers from different acquisition institutions crossed the state person been consistently raising.
The students explained that the ISI is gradually being taken implicit institutionally by the RSS, Mr. Gandhi alleged.
He said the ISI is not conscionable immoderate mean instauration but it conducts high-level probe successful Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science and policy-making, and has produced world-class experts for the country.
"The Academic Councils, which should beryllium tally by academicians, are present facing bureaucratic and ideological interference. The syllabus and probe are besides being controlled by the RSS ideology.
"This is not acquisition reform, but a conspiracy to weaken acquisition and institutions truthful that the aboriginal of young radical tin beryllium pushed into darkness, and these institutions tin beryllium privatised oregon their assets sold off," the Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha said.
"This onslaught is not conscionable connected institutions but connected the country's intelligence freedom, technological temperament and the aboriginal of its youth. We volition not fto this happen. Education needs state -- institutions volition beryllium tally by cognition and science, not by ideology," Mr. Gandhi said successful his post.
In different station connected Facebook, helium said helium had met weavers from Bhadohi who raised concerns astir the crushed realities they are facing successful the aftermath of tariffs imposed by the United States.
"I had already said -- 'Trump's tariffs are going to go an economical storm, which volition wounded millions of people' -- but Narendra Modi is sitting quietly. Today, the weavers of Bhadohi are telling the crushed information of the aforesaid warning," helium said aft gathering the weavers of Bhadohi precocious astatine Jan Sansad.
The weavers besides presented a carpet woven by them to Mr. Gandhi, which showed their skills, hard enactment and centuries-old art.
He said that Bhadohi, who was erstwhile called ‘Carpet City’, is present a unfortunate of defamation.
He said the anti-India tariff argumentation of the United States has had a unspeakable effect connected galore industries of the country, and the carpet commercialized of Bhadohi has been astir destroyed by it. Unfortunately, the authorities has taken nary factual steps, neither by overseas argumentation nor from immoderate nationalist plan, to grip oregon revive this industry, helium added.
"The effect is that exports person been steadily declining and commercialized has been shifting towards countries similar Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal," Mr. Gandhi said.
He said this is each the information of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency (Varanasi) wherever weavers are claiming that they are facing devastation "because Modi has blinded his eyes to their suffering".
"This centuries-old art, which is the ground of their trade, the individuality of India and the livelihood of millions, is contiguous a unfortunate of exploitation and authorities neglect. Conditions are truthful atrocious that these hard moving families bash not adjacent person entree to affordable and accessible wellness facilities.
"These are the tiny industries and tiny businesses I support talking astir -- the ones that make jobs, fortify the system and determination the state forward," the Congress person said.
He said present it is indispensable that powerfulness beryllium returned to the hands of these radical done policies and fiscal cooperation, truthful that these artisans tin brighten the sanction of India again and fortify the country's economy.
