India witnessing death of democracy, onset of dictatorship: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that India is witnessing the ‘death of democracy’ and anybody who stands against the onset of dictatorship is ‘viciously attacked’.

 Addressing a press conference at the All India Congress Committee headquarters in New Delhi ahead of the nationwide protest by the Congress against price rise and GST on essential items, he said the Gandhi family is attacked because it fights for democracy and for communal harmony.

Gandhi charged that the sole agenda of the government is that people’s issues such as price rise, unemployment and violence in society must not be raised. There is no democracy in India and there is a dictatorship of four people, he alleged.

“What we are witnessing is the death of democracy. That is what India is witnessing. What India has built brick by brick, starting almost a century ago, is basically being destroyed in front of your eyes,” Gandhi, who was flanked by party leaders Jairam Ramesh and Ashok Gehlot, said.