A furious Rahul Gandhi thundered as soon as he began his remarks that his name wasn't "Rahul Savarkar" but Rahul Gandhi, and that he would not apologise for this. He had just alluded to the controversy over his "Rape in India" comment, for which the BJP had asked him for an apology.
The Congress is holding a massive rally called "Bharat Bachao" at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan today. A huge crowd has gathered to listen to senior party leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Congress is attacking the Modi government on a number of issues, including the economy and women's safety. This, at a time when there's an assembly election underway in Jharkhand, a BJP-ruled state.
'Constitution will be destroyed'
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that India's Constitution would be destroyed if citizens didn't raise their voices and stayed in the darkness of fear and lies. "We will be as...responsible for this as...the arrogant and lying leaders of BJP-RSS," she said.