Breaking silence, Cong leader defends the timing of his objection to ordinance on convicted lawmakers.
The heir apparent from the first family of the Congress seems to have made up his mind about what’s plaguing the Congress and the country – too much power in the hands of too few! “I fundamentally believe in my heart that too few people run the country at all levels,” said Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi here on Thursday, while interacting with the media.
During a Gujarat Media Club organized interaction, he candidly admitted that the words he chose to thrash the ordinance to protect convicted lawmakers were strong, but his sentiment was not wrong. Answering a question about the timing of raising objections to the ordinance, he said, “My mother (Congress president Sonia Gandhi) told me, maybe the words you used were strong. In hindsight possibly that was wrong, but the sentiment was not wrong. I am a young person, every now and then I say what I feel. In fact a large part of Congress would agree with me on this. I have an opinion and I have a right to voice my opinion. Why am I being penalized for it,” he defended his position vehemently.
Explaining his sudden intervention on the subject at a press conference in Delhi on last Friday, September 27, Rahul said, “Well…I called up Mr Maken and he told me that I am defending the ordinance….I told him Mr Maken I don’t think you can defend the ordinance, I will come and defend it for you. What I felt it is that it was very difficult for me to go along with this. That is what I felt inside. And I am sorry if what I felt inside disturbed you…well that’s fine because that’s going to disturb you again and again because what I feel is what I am going to say.”
He added. “It would be amazing if anybody would say that what I was saying (about the ordinance) was not right….I am flabbergasted. Because, what I was saying was absolutely correct.”
Answering a query about why the intervention happened at such a later stage, he replied, “That is something between my mother, the Prime Minister and me. I will be betraying their trust if I would discuss that, so I will not answer that question. But deep within, I felt that it was something I could not go along with and I said so. My point of view is detrimental to our alliance members, so this is not done keeping the elections in mind.”
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