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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Friday (March 6, 2026) said that “it was bully news” that the movie Kerala Story-2 Goes Beyond was not being wide watched.
In an enactment with assemblage students successful Kuttikkanam, Idukki district, the Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha spoke connected assorted topics including artificial intelligence, acquisition and martial arts.
Responding to a student’s question astir movies being utilized arsenic propaganda, Mr. Gandhi shared his views connected Kerala Story-2 Goes Beyond. “While the bully quality is that Kerala Story-2 seems to beryllium empty, and nary 1 is watching it, it besides shows that determination are people, a bulk of them, who person not understood what Kerala is and its traditions and civilization are,” helium said.
According to Mr. Gandhi, movies, tv and media person progressively been “weaponised”. “It is utilized precisely for that intent — to vilify people, destruct them and make divisions successful nine truthful that definite radical payment portion others are harmed. India has go precise overmuch similar that,” helium said.
The Congress person said specified developments were highly damaging for the country, and ample amounts of wealth were being spent connected that purpose.
Speaking astir his idiosyncratic interests, Mr. Gandhi said helium reads rather a batch connected subjects helium wants to larn about, but does not ticker galore movies.
“As hobbies, I similar playing chess and doing martial arts. I swim, tally and workout to support fit,” helium said.
Mr. Gandhi said that though helium represented Kerala successful Parliament for 5 years, helium could not afloat recognize the State successful depth, but had learnt a large woody from the radical of Wayanad.
“I was precise amazed erstwhile I archetypal arrived there. There was a large landslide that claimed respective lives, but I was impressed by however radical responded. Even aft specified a tragedy, they were helping others. It did not substance what assemblage oregon fiscal inheritance a idiosyncratic belonged to,” helium said.
He said Kerala has precise aged and invaluable traditions and advised students to stay rooted successful the State’s civilization portion besides learning from different places.
Mr. Gandhi besides claimed that the country’s acquisition strategy was nether unit from a peculiar ideology. “If you look astatine vice-chancellors successful universities, a ample fig of them were appointed simply due to the fact that they are portion of the RSS oregon a peculiar ideology. There is ideological unit connected the acquisition system. Education should not beryllium constricted to immoderate peculiar mode of thinking, particularly not to the RSS’ divisive view,” helium said.
On artificial intelligence, Mr. Gandhi said India has not yet reached the level of the United States oregon China. “At an AI summit, determination was a Chinese robot masquerading arsenic an Indian robot,” helium said.
The Congress person said that if India wants to beryllium almighty successful AI, it should power its ain data.
He claimed that portion the United States has entree to planetary data, China controls its ain data, which strengthens its presumption successful AI.
“The caller woody with the U.S. has handed implicit our full information to America. U.S. companies tin support Indian information wherever they similar and volition not beryllium taxed. So, we person damaged our imaginable successful AI successful the past mates of weeks,” helium said.
On the ongoing struggle successful West Asia, Mr. Gandhi said that connected the aboveground it appears to beryllium a warfare involving the United States and Israel against Iran, but the larger geopolitical players were the U.S., China and Russia.
“The U.S. is trying to guarantee it remains the ascendant superpower, portion China is advancing person to it. That is the broader picture,” helium said, adding that West Asia is the centre of planetary vigor accumulation and conflicts determination person wider consequences.
“Even India is paying the terms of the warfare straight due to the fact that of our dependence connected vigor from the Middle East,” helium said.
Mr. Gandhi said India’s spot lies successful its diverseness and added that, on with controlling its information and expanding accumulation capacity, the state could go a planetary power.
“The way we are connected present is 1 wherever radical are made to combat each different — religion against religion, connection against language, caste against caste. We are not producing capable and are handing implicit our biggest asset, which is data, to the U.S.,” helium said.
Asked astir authorities arsenic a profession, Mr. Gandhi said being a person is simply a hard occupation if 1 tries to bash it sincerely. “If you privation to bash it earnestly and person a worth system, it is simply a precise hard job. You should beryllium acceptable to endure a batch if you are doing it for the close reason. If you are doing it for the incorrect reason, it is easy,” helium said.
He, on with Congress MPs K.C. Venugopal and Dean Kuriakose, besides tried a fewer steps of Kalaripayattu, the accepted martial creation signifier of Kerala, with a assemblage student.
He said martial arts are often seen arsenic a signifier of self-defence but are besides a mode of knowing oneself.
“It is astir discovering yourself and knowing however you respond to antithetic situations. It is precise powerful. It is said that Kalari is the parent of each martial arts. Kalari requires flexibility, and I americium not that flexible,” helium quipped.
