Democracy Is Dead In India, There Is Dictatorship Only: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: On a day when Congress launched a nationwide protest on issues of inflation, price rise, GST and unemployment, Rahul Gandhi led a scathing attack against the BJP-led Central government.

The Congress MP said that India is witnessing the death of democracy and that there is only a dictatorship led by four people.

“We are witnessing the death of democracy. What India has built brick by brick, starting almost a century ago, is being destroyed in front of your eyes. Anybody who stands against this idea of onset of dictatorship is viciously attacked, jailed, arrested and beaten up,” Rahul said at a press conference this morning ahead of Congress leaders’ march to Rashtrapati Bhavan to mark their protest.

“We want to highlight the matter of price rise, unemployment. We want to discuss how society is being split up. We want to do it here and in Parliament as well. But we are not allowed to debate these matters in Parliament… we get arrested. This is the situation of today’s India,” Rahul said.

Preventing people’s issues from being raised is the government’s sole agenda, Rahul claimed.

“The government is being run to protect the interest of four or five people. This dictatorship is being run in the interest of two or three big businesspeople by two people, the senior Congress leader claimed.

Accusing the Centre of putting its own people in major institutions, Rahul alleged, “All institutions in India are not independent. They all are under the control of RSS… There is at least one person from RSS sitting in each institution.”