New Delhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that India is witnessing the death of democracy and anybody who raises people’s issues and stands against the onset of dictatorship is viciously attacked and put in jail. Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here ahead of the nationwide protest by the Congress against price rise and GST hike on essential items, the former Congress president said the Gandhi family is attacked because it fights for democracy and for communal harmony. Gandhi charged that the sole agenda of the government is that people’s issues such as price rise, unemployment and violence in society must not be raised.
There is no democracy in India and there is a dictatorship of four people, he alleged.
What we are witnessing is the death of democracy. That is what India is witnessing. What India has built brick by brick, starting almost a century ago, is basically being destroyed in front of your eyes, Gandhi, who was flanked by party leaders Ashok Gehlot and Jairam Ramesh, said. Democracy is now a memory in India and nothing more. There are going to be consequences of this because people of India will not be quiet about that, he also said. All of you know it, all of India knows it. Anybody who stands against this idea of the onset of dictatorship, does not matter who he is, where he comes from, which state, which religion, male or female, that person is viciously attacked, put in jail, arrested, beaten up, he said. The idea is that people’s issues, whether they are price rise, unemployment, violence in society, must not be raised, Gandhi said, alleging that the more he raises people’s issues and speaks the truth, the more he will be attacked.
