New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday said there was a feeling among people that one ideology was being imposed upon them and asserted that the country cannot be run on one single idea. The strength of the country, he said, is that people are allowed to discuss ideas.
Attacking the Modi government over its education policy, Gandhi said government institutions should be given precedence over private institutions and the government should put money to strengthen them.
“Government institutions should be the guiding light and not private institutions. The government should put money in the system to strengthen government institutions,” he said, addressing eminent academicians at an event at Siri Fort auditorium here. He added that there is a feeling that ideology is being imposed.
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“You feel an ideology is being imposed upon you. This sense and this feeling is not only in your heart but it is in everybody’s hearts from farmers to laborers. The country cannot be run from one single idea,” he said.
“The fact that we allow people to talk to discuss. This is the strength of our country it is not the weakness of our country. If we see 3000 years of India’s history, we are going to win. We are not going to lose,” Gandhi added.
Gandhi also took a dig at Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat. Gandhi said, “When Modi ji came to power, an officer was chosen to head SPG. After some time he told me he was leaving. He said, ‘I’ve been given a list of people RSS wants to put in SPG, I refused.’ Idea is that there shouldn’t be an institution that doesn’t have tentacles of RSS inside it.”
He added, “I once heard Mohan Bhagwat say, ‘We are going to organise the whole nation.’ Who are you to organise the whole nation, Mr Mohan Bhagwat? Are you some kind of a God? The nation will organise itself.”
(With PTI inputs)