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The Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, connected Friday (May 8, 2026) said lone the Congress could decision the BJP, calling the contention a clash betwixt the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) “ideology of hatred and partition” and the Congress’s “ideology of emotion and unity.”
“This is simply a conflict of ideologies. Other parties cannot instrumentality them on. Ultimately, lone the Congress volition basal against them and decision them. The Congress volition decision Amit Shah and [Narendra] Modi,” Mr. Gandhi told a cheering assemblage connected Khandsa Road during erstwhile MP Brijendra Singh’s “Sadbhav Yatra.”
Mr. Gandhi’s beingness astatine the padayatra was marked by a amusement of unity successful the faction-ridden Haryana unit. The Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president Rao Narender Singh, Leader of Opposition and erstwhile Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Surjewala joined him connected stage.
Both Mr. Narender Singh and Mr. Hooda, who had earlier dismissed the padayatra arsenic Mr. Brijendra Singh’s “personal effort” and stayed away, congratulated him for the initiative.
On U.S. commercialized deal
Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Gandhi accused him of attacking the antiauthoritarian strategy and Ambedkar’s Constitution, vowing that the Congress would not hide it.
“Mark my words, the Congress volition decision Narendra Modi. Then you volition spot what enactment we take,” helium said, calling Mr. Modi “compromised” and arguing nary different Prime Minister could person signed a woody with the United States wherever India “got nothing.”
He claimed the woody volition harm Indian farmers and jeopardise the agriculture sector.
Mr. Gandhi cited 2 reasons for it [for the deal]: the “Epstein File,” which helium said contained Mr. Modi’s “entire history,” and a pending U.S. transgression lawsuit against businessman [Gautam] Adani. He besides claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump had said helium could “end Narendra Modi’s vocation successful a azygous minute.”
Mr. Gandhi’s information besides underscored the adjacent ties betwixt Mr. Brijendra Singh’s household and the Gandhis. Mr. Singh’s father, erstwhile Union curate Choudhary Birender Singh, was adjacent to precocious Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The motion boosts Mr. Brijendra Singh’s lasting successful the State portion and undercuts his rivals.
Mr. Brijendra Singh, who began the Statewide padayatra past October aft Assembly elections, said the ‘Sadbhav Yatra’ had tally for implicit 7 months, covering 2,700 km and 85 Assembly constituencies to beforehand harmony and antagonistic the BJP’s “propagated hatred.” In the 2024 election, helium mislaid the Uchana Kalan spot by a borderline of 32 votes.
Inspired by Mr. Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, the march flagged issues from planetary to local, including electoral malpractice, unemployment, farmers’ distress, instrumentality and order, MGNREGA, and Dalit concerns, portion alleging BJP authorities inaction, Mr. Brijendra Singh said.
