“I don’t hate PM Modi”: Says Rahul Gandhi in US

Rahul Gandhi said he doesn’t hate the Prime Minister or consider him as his enemy but only disagrees with his point of view.

“You will be surprised, but I don’t actually hate Mr Modi…he has got a point of view, fine, I don’t agree with his point of view but I don’t hate him. In many moments, I empathise with him. I don’t think like he is my enemy. He has a different point of view; I have a different point of view. I have empathy and compassion for what he is doing,” said Rahul Gandhi at an event in the US.

The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, who is on a four-day visit to the United States, made this statement at the Georgetown University on Monday.

Speaking at the event, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Lok Sabha elections were not fought on the same footing. He said, “I don’t see it as a free election. I see it as a heavily controlled election.”

“I don’t believe that in a fair election, the BJP would come anywhere near 240 seats. I would be surprised,” he said, asserting that the party had a “huge financial advantage”.

“The Election Commission was doing what they wanted. The entire campaign was structured so that Mr Modi could carry out his agenda across the country, with different designs for different states,” he said.

“The Congress party fought the elections with their bank accounts frozen and has basically destroyed the idea of Modi. You can see it because when you see the prime minister now in Parliament…he is psychologically trapped, and he basically cannot come to terms, he cannot understand how this has happened,” he said.