New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the BJP and RSS of a hegemonistic approach in running the country, saying that in the present time, RSS has become virtually the ''only institute'' in India and it has penetrated every other institution.
"There is a wholesale capture of the institutional framework of this country. There is absolute financial and media dominance that BJP has," Gandhi said during a video interaction with Ambassador Nicholas Burns from the Harvard Kennedy School of US.
He also added that it is not just the Congress party but other parties like BSP, SP, NCP too are not winning elections. "We are no longer in the same paradigm that we were in before 2014. We're in a paradigm where institutions that are supposed to protect us, institutions that are supposed to support a fair political fight, do not do so anymore," Rahul said.
He further added, "To fight elections, I need institutional structures, I need a judicial system that protects me, I need media that is reasonably free, I need financial parity, I need a whole set of structures that actually allow me to operate a political party. I don't have them."
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While mentioning about the recent incident of Assam Assembly Elections where EVMs were being found in the car of a BJP candidate, Rahul said, "In Assam, the gentleman who runs our campaign has been sending videos of BJP candidates running around voting machines in their cars. But there is nothing going on in national media."
On the matter of Chinese incursions into the Indian land, the Congress leader alleged that it is because China sees a "weakened India" which is internally divided.
