Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said he was reading Upanishads and the Bhagwad Gita to take on the RSS and BJP.
“Nowadays I study the Upanishads and the Gita since I am fighting the RSS and BJP,” he said addressing party functionaries in Chennai.
“I ask them, my friend, you are doing this, you are oppressing people, but it is written in the Upanishad that all people are the same and how come you are contradicting what your own religion says,” party sources quoted him as having told them.
Taking potshots at Narendra Modi, he said BJP men were under the impression that the “entire universal knowledge” came out of the Prime Minister.
Gandhi, who has accused BJP-RSS of attempting to thrust one idea on the nation, said every individual, be it in Tamil Nadu or Uttar Pradesh, had a right to express dissent if they were aggrieved, and imposition of one idea was not acceptable.
While expressing his appreciation for people of Tamil Nadu, their language, culture and culinary, “which is a strength for India like other states,” Gandhi said he had a special connect with the state.
He also said that “he has decided to start watching Tamil movies,” and “read about the culture of Tamil Nadu people”.
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president Su Thirunavukkarasar, Congress Legislature Party leader KR Ramasamy were among the functionaries who attended the meeting.
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