Congress leader and Member of Parliament from Wayanad, Rahul Gandhi, while speaking in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday (February 2) said that India is not a kingdom but a ‘Union of States’.
In his motion of thanks to the presidential address, Rahul Gandhi said “There are two visions of India. No power has been able to challenge this bouquet of flowers. The idea of a king has come back which Congress removed in 1947. Now there is a shehanshah. Now the instruments of the conversations between our state and people are being attacked by one idea. So, for example, today the idea of Tamil Nadu is excluded from the Indian institution. You are saying get out of here. They don’t have a voice. The farmers of Punjab can stand up but they do not have a voice. They died during the coronavirus pandemic during their protests. But the king didn’t listen.
Rahul Gandhi also challenged the idea of India as a nation saying that India is a union of states which runs on a ‘partnership’ by means negotiations and conversation.
”It is not a kingdom. You will never ever rule over the people of Tamil Nadu…You are not the king.”, he said.
He said that the confused idea of the nation of India is playing havoc with the country.
He also touched on the issue of Pegasus saying “When PM Modi is personally going to Israel and authorising pegasus, he is attacking the people of Tamil Nadu, he is attacking the people of Assam,”.
“You are fiddling with something very very dangerous. I know something about the idea of India because blood has been sacrificed for this country not by me but by my family members. My father was blown into bits,” Rahul Gandhi said.
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