Modi’s 56-inch chest, direct connection with God history now: Rahul Gandhi

Attacking the RSS, Gandhi said that the organisation advocates that “certain states, languages, religions, communities are inferior to others.”

Mentioning a Sikh person in the crowd, he said: “The fight was about whether he as a Sikh will be allowed to wear a turban in India. Or he as a Sikh will be allowed to wear a ‘kada’ (bangle) in India. Or he as a Sikh will be able to go to the gurudwara. And this was about all religions.”

Interacting with students at Georgetown University in Washington DC, Gandhi said, “If this year’s Lok Sabha elections were fair, BJP would not have come anywhere near 240 seats.”

“The EC was doing what they wanted. The entire campaign was structured so that Modi could carry out his agenda across the country… with different designs for different states. I don’t view it as a free election at all. I view it rather as a controlled election,” he said.

On a question on caste-based reservations, Gandhi said, “If you look at the Indian government, there are 70 bureaucrats who run the government… Of the 70 people, there is no tribal, three Dalits and three OBCs, a minority… the fact is they aren’t getting participation. We will think of ending reservation when India is a fair place. And India is not a fair place,” he said.