Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed that the ruling BJP has made a “wholesale capture” of the complete “institutional framework” of the nation, and this was stopping a “fair political fight”.
“There is a wholesale capture of the institutional framework of this country and absolute financial and media dominance.”
“To fight elections fairly, there is need of institutional structures, a judicial system that protects, a media that is reasonably free, also financial parity, and there is need of a whole set of structures that actually allow operating a political party.
“We are in a paradigm where the institutions that are supposed to protect us, do not protect us anymore. And the institutions that are supposed to support a fair political fight, don’t do so anymore,” he stated in on-line interplay with Nicholas Burns, the Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a former US Under Secretary of State.
This was their second such interplay after one through the top of the pandemic.
On the electoral losses of his social gathering, the Congress chief stated: “Not just the Congress, the BSP, the SP, the NCP are not winning elections.”
To bolster his allegation, he gave the instance of Assam EVM row, saying: “BJP candidates are running around voting machines in their cars. But there is nothing going on in national media.”
Gandhi additionally stated: “When we were in the government, we had a feedback system which enabled effective governance. That feedback system is not there now. The current regime’s style of governance is centralised… it’s the idea that believes that centralised power understands everything.”
In the start, he stated that the assassination of his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 modified him.
He additionally stated that he had all the time been accustomed to an “environment” of public service, and had been introduced up with the concept that you can’t tolerate injustice.
