While addressing an event in Germany, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were being used by the BJP to target political opponents while sparing those aligned with the ruling party.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has launched an attack against the BJP, accusing it of “weaponising” the country’s institutional framework.
While addressing a gathering at the Hertie School in Berlin last week, he alleged that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were being used by the BJP to target political opponents while sparing those aligned with the ruling party.
“There is a wholesale capture of our institutional framework. There is a full-scale assault taking place on the institutional framework of our country,” he claimed.
“Our intelligence agencies, ED and CBI have been weaponised. The ED and CBI have zero cases against the BJP and most of the political cases are against the people who oppose them,” Gandhi added.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha went on to say that if a businessman supports the Congress, they are threatened, alleging that India’s institutions are no longer functioning as they should.
Gandhi further said that the Congress helped build the institutional framework and the party never viewed it as “our own institution but of the country.”
“But this is not how the BJP sees it. They view the institutional framework as something that belongs to them. They use it as a tool to build political power.
Gandhi also said democracy is under attack and stressed the need to counter it, adding that “we will create a system of opposition resistance that will succeed. We are not fighting the BJP, but their capture of the Indian institutional structure.”
VOTE THEFT
The senior Congress leader once again alleged vote theft, claiming the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections were rigged in favour of the BJP – an accusation he has repeatedly made in the past.
“We have won elections in Telangana, Himachal Pradesh. We have been raising issues as far as the fairness of elections in India is concerned. I have done press conferences in India where we have clearly shown without a shadow of a doubt that we won the Haryana election and that we don’t feel the Maharashtra elections were fair,” he said.
He claimed the party had evidence of victory in Haryana and sought answers from the Election Commission over irregularities, including duplicate entries on voter lists, but received no response.
“We fundamentally believe that there is a problem with the electoral machinery in India,” he added.
CLASH BETWEEN TWO VISIONS
Rahul Gandhi also took aim at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s economic model, alleging that the BJP and the RSS have merely extended the policies of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh without offering a new direction.
He claimed that the PM Modi-led government’s economic approach has reached a dead end and can no longer deliver results.
Gandhi acknowledged that many people support PM Modi, but said a large section of Indians disagree with his ideology and vision for the country. He argued that this vision is flawed and risks creating deep social tensions.
“We think the vision will fail and it has tremendous problems. It will create massive tensions in India and make Indian people fight with each other. We will fight it. It is a clash between two visions in India.” he said.
