Rahul Gandhi likens Modi to Godse, says a coward can never look at the truth

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During his speech, Rahul said Gandhi wanted every single person to search for his own truth. “If you look at our culture and our history, this is embedded in our tradition. You can look across the country and you will find great people who encouraged others to search for their truths. But, today, an ignorant man, an uninformed man, is trying to challenge this idea.

“He is so full of hatred and anger, that he cannot understand what India’s strength is. When Godse shot Gandhi, he did not look in his eyes because a liar, a coward, can never look at the truth,” he added.

On the new citizenship law, Gandhi said Modi and the BJP were trying to divide India and spread hatred. “Who is Modi to decide if I am Indian? Who has given him the licence to decide who is Indian and who is not?” he asked.

“It is our duty to confront them peacefully. The same way we fought Godse’s ideology, we will fight Modi. And, I’m telling you, we will win,” Rahul said.

Rahul, who is on a three-day visit to the state, led a two kilometre “save the Constitution” march in Kalpetta this morning. The march was part of the Congress’ agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. He was accompanied by party leaders Oommen Chandy, K C Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala and Mullapally Ramachandran.

The Congress unit in Kerala has been holding protests across the state, led by its MPs, MLAs and local leaders, over the last few days, reported news agency PTI. In the other 13 districts of Kerala, party leaders are organising a “human map of India” today.

Rahul Gandhi leads two kilometre “save the Constitution” march in Kalpetta on Thursday. (Source: INC India)

The central Congress leadership, earlier this month, released a strongly-worded resolution demanding the “Citizenship Amendment Act should be withdrawn and the process of NPR be stopped forthwith”. Party chief Sonia Gandhi told the Congress Working Committee, the Congress’s highest policymaking body, that the “CAA is a discriminatory and divisive law”, the “sinister purpose” of which was to divide the Indian people on religious lines.

Further, Sonia convened a meeting of 20 Opposition parties on January 13, during which leaders passed a resolution calling the citizenship law “unconstitutional”.

Rahul, along with Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met officials of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday to demand a probe into the alleged allegations of police atrocities against those protesting the CAA in Uttar Pradesh.

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