"60% of India votes for us. 40% of India votes for them..." This is what Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said about BJP's Hindutva politics...
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00:00There's nothing Hindu about what the BJP does.
00:03There's absolutely nothing.
00:05The majority community actually votes more for us than they vote for them.
00:09Over this past few years, it's been particularly scary to see many of my friends and family
00:33members back in India become radicalized by Hindu nationalist rhetoric.
00:38My question to you is, if your coalition gets elected, where exactly do you see yourself
00:43placing the role of Hinduism in a post-BJP India?
00:47Look, I've read the Gita.
00:52I've read a number of the Upanishads.
00:56I've read many Hindu books.
00:59There's nothing Hindu about what the BJP does.
01:02There's absolutely nothing.
01:05I have not read anywhere.
01:08In no Hindu book, from no Hindu, learned Hindu person, have I ever heard that you should
01:18terrorize, harm people who are weaker than you.
01:22I've never read this.
01:24So this idea, this word, Hindu nationalists, this is a wrong word.
01:28They're not Hindu nationalists.
01:30They have nothing to do with Hinduism.
01:33They are out to get power at any cost, and they will do anything to get power, and they
01:41will do anything to ensure that the Indian caste structure, the social structure of my
01:49country is not threatened.
01:51They want dominance of a few people, and that is what they're about.
01:57There is nothing Hindu about them.
02:00My question is about the opposition's narrative for the next election.
02:05I saw that Ms. Sonia Gandhi wrote a letter identifying nine points to the Prime Minister.
02:10Is that the opposition's pitch?
02:11Because as a minority, of course, it's important for me to have the love shop and hate market.
02:17Is there another issue?
02:19Are there certain issues that you have identified that will perhaps build more consensus with
02:23even the majority community and get you where you are, where you want to be in 2024?
02:29When you see the people on the stage in the India coalition, you must realize that more
02:39people from the majority community vote for us than vote for the BJP.
02:45Sixty percent of India votes for us.
02:49Forty percent of India votes for them.
02:53So this idea that the majority community is voting for the BJP, this is a wrong idea.
02:59The majority community actually votes more for us than they vote for them.
03:05They do polarize society.
03:07They divide society.
03:09They spread hatred in society, and that is their mechanism.
03:15They also happen to have very good relationships with the most powerful, richest crony capitalists
03:24in the land, who finance them, support them, help them do what they do.
03:30And so this is the architecture that stands behind the BJP.
03:35The idea that Mr. Narendra Modi is orchestrating this thing is a gross simplification.
03:41Mr. Narendra Modi is an instrument of the architecture.
03:47And I'm pretty confident that the RSS can get rid of Narendra Modi in five minutes if
03:51they want to.
03:52Right?
03:54It is a structure that is doing this.
03:58And that structure is now a threat to Indian democracy.