"Rahul Gandhi in complete grip of Urban Naxals": BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad on 'Indian state' remark
Jan 16, 2025
New Delhi [India], January 16 : Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday hit out at Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his remark on "fighting the Indian State" and alleged that he is in complete grip of the "Urban Naxal thinking process" and needs to change his "tutor".
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, BJP MP and spokesperson, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Indian state represents the "constitutional identity" of the country as a "free country".
"Rahul Gandhi yesterday said that our fight is against the Indian state. I reiterate, he needs to change his tutor... He is the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha. Do you (Rahul Gandhi) understand the meaning of the Indian state? You are saying to fight with that...The Indian state represents the constitutional identity of India as a free country," the BJP MP said.
"When you say something, do you understand that? When will you start understanding?" he questioned the Congress leader.
Further sharpening his attack on Rahul Gandhi's criticism of Sangh (RSS), Prasad said that actually RSS has done great work for society.
"He criticises the Sangh (RSS) a lot; your ancestors used to do the same. You kept on criticising, but see where RSS has reached. Look where the BJP is. Because Sangh is a nationalist organisation. It had done great works for the society," he said.
"Rahul Gandhi is in the complete grip of Urban Naxals thinking process," the BJP leader added.
Notably, while inaugurating the party's new headquarters, 'Indira Bhawan,' on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Congress and other opposition parties were not just fighting the BJP but "the Indian state itself."
"Our ideology, like the RSS ideology, is thousands of years old, and it has been fighting the RSS ideology for thousands of years. Do not think that we are fighting a fair fight. There is no fairness in this. If you believe that we are fighting a political organisation called the BJP or RSS, you have not understood what is going on. The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of our country. We are now fighting the BJP, the RSS, and the Indian state itself," the Lok Sabha LoP said.
