From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says he doesn’t want that phone call he got in school when he was just 14 and the principal called him to get the phone call. It was the call by a woman working with his mother who told him that her grand-ma (Indira Gandhi) has been shot at.
Addressing the closing rally of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar, he said Prime Minister, Amit Shah and Ajit Dobal can’t understand it, but it would be understood by the Kashmiris, CRPF personnel, Army people and their families. PM Modi, Amit Shah and Dobal as also the RSS people can’t understand the pain in such phone calls.
Rahul said there was again a phone call on May 21 to the families of those killed in the Pulwama attack. “Thousands of Kashmiri friends got such calls, families of our soldiers such calls. How it hits their hearts is understood by me and my sisters. What happened when people are killed here in Kashmir,” he said.
On the BJP and RSS attacking him, abusing him, Rajul said he thank them because he only learnt from the pressure they built him. They are attacking on India’s ideology, which is the foundation of this country. He said all Yatris, who joined him in the mega walk have only trying to protect this ideology.
“I know we have tried to open a shop of love in the market of hatred. We are reminding the people that India is a nation of love, respect and harmony,” Rahul added. He said he did not carry out the Yatra neither for himself nor for the Congress, but for the people of India in an attempt to break the foundation of their ideology, standing up not through hate but only with love.”
