Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in New York has said that after winning the Karnataka assembly elections, his party will “wipe out” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections in Telangana and other states. He asserted that not only the Congress party, but the people of India are also going to defeat the hate-filled ideology of the BJP. Rahul said, ‘We have shown in Karnataka that we can defeat the BJP…We did not defeat them, but wiped them out. We defeated them badly in Karnataka. Rahul has arrived in New York after visiting Washington and San Francisco and will address a community rally at the Javits Center in Manhattan on Sunday.
He said, ‘BJP tried every trick in Karnataka elections. The entire media was with him. They had 10 times the money we had, they had the government, they had the agency. They had everything, but still we annihilated them. “…and I want you to know that we are going to wipe them out in the next elections in Telangana as well,” the former Congress president said amid thunderous applause and slogans from those present at the event. He said, “It will be difficult to even find BJP in Telangana after this election.”
Assembly elections are going to be held in this state of South India later this year. The community event drew a large number of congressional supporters, party members, officials, and members of the expatriate community, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Rahul said, ‘Apart from Telangana, elections are also to be held in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. We will do to them (BJP) in these states what we did in Karnataka. He said, ‘It is not only the Congress party which is going to defeat the BJP. People of India, people of Madhya Pradesh, people of Telangana, people of Rajasthan-Chhattisgarh are going to defeat BJP.
The Congress leader said that the reason for this is that ‘India has understood that it cannot move forward with the kind of hatred that BJP is spreading in the society’. “The same is going to happen in some other states as well. Then in 2024 (Lok Sabha elections) we will do the same… The opposition is united, we all are working together. This is an ideological battle. Rahul alleged that the BJP in Karnataka tried to polarize and create anger and hatred between communities. “The Prime Minister himself tried it, but did it work,” he asked. To this the audience replied ‘No’.
