I don't view Congress as the big daddy: Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge

While speaking at the Ideas for India conference at Cambridge University in London, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that his party is fighting to regain India.

I don't view Congress as a big daddy. Congress, in no way, is superior to other opposition parties, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at the Ideas for India conference at Cambridge University in London.

This came after a remark he made during Chintan Shivir in Udaipur recently. He had said that the Congress alone can fight the BJP as regional parties neither have an ideology nor a centralised approach. His statement upset many parties in the opposition.

As his party continues to struggle with infighting, rebellion, defections and election losses, Rahul Gandhi said, “The Congress is fighting to regain India. It’s an ideological battle now - a national ideological battle. A soul without a voice means nothing. India's voice has been crushed. The deep state is chewing the Indian state, much like what happened in Pakistan,” he said.

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He added, "We are not just fighting the BJP. We are now fighting the institutional structure of the Indian state, which has been captured by an organisation."

The Congress leader further added, "We will not be able to match the funds they have. We will have to think of large-scale mass movements on issues like price rises and unemployment."