Congress President Rahul Gandhi claimed today that the RSS, the ideological mentor of the BJP, wants to penetrate and control all institutions in the country. "You currently have one institution called the RSS, the mother ship of the BJP, which believes it is the only institution in the country. They want to penetrate into all other institutions and control them," he said.
This mindset has led to chaos everywhere in the country, including areas of judiciary and education, he alleged. "We believe India should be run by its 1.2 billion people. One set of people, one ideology should not run the country," he said during an interactive session at 'The Odisha Dialogue' in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar.
Mr Gandhi's visit to Odisha comes close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's back-to-back visits to the state. The visit is crucial for uniting the party cadre in the state where several senior leaders including two MLAs quit the party recently, a party leader said. Assembly election would be held along with Lok Sabha polls in Odisha soon.
