PM Modi creating vision of India that leaves out huge chunks of population: Rahul

TIL Desk/National/London/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi is creating a vision of India that is not inclusive and one that excludes huge chunks of the country’s population, which is unfair and goes against the idea of India, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday. Rahul was speaking at an interactive session with students at the University of Cambridge.

 During the event titled “India at 75” at Corpus Christi College, Rahul covered a broad range of subjects from Hindu nationalism, the Gandhi family’s role in the Congress and efforts to mobilise the people of the country as he fielded questions from a largely Indian student base.

“I have a problem if anybody has a vision for India that excludes people, I don’t care who’s being excluded. I have a problem with it because it is completely unfair, it ignores that there is tremendous energy in the people being excluded and I have a problem with it because that’s not what India is,” said  Rahul, in response to a question about secularism in India.

“I think it goes beyond secularism. You have to include every single person with compassion. Modi is constructing a vision of India where he’s leaving out huge chunks of our population. And, that’s not a vision of India, that’s a vision of a part of India,” he said. Asked how the Congress plans to fight against the forces of “Hindu nationalism”, Rahul declared that he did not agree with the term itself.