“I want you to know that we are going to decimate them in Telangana next,” Rahul Gandhi said to loud cheers and applause from the gathering.
New York:
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said after the Karnataka election victory his party will “decimate” the BJP in Telangana and other state polls, emphasising that it is not just the Congress party but the people of India who are going to defeat its hate-filled ideology.
“We have shown in Karnataka that we can decimate the BJP…We did not defeat them, we decimated them. We smashed them in Karnataka,” Mr Gandhi said at a dinner event organised here Saturday by the Indian Overseas Congress-USA.
Mr Gandhi arrived in New York after visiting Washington and San Francisco and will address a community rally at the Javits Centre in Manhattan on Sunday.
He said in the Karnataka elections, the BJP “tried everything in the book, they had the entire media, they had 10 times the amount of money we had, they had the government, they had the agency. They had everything and then we decimated them,” Gandhi said.
“And I want you to know that we are going to decimate them in Telangana next,” he said to loud cheers and applause from the gathering.
“It will be hard to find the BJP in Telangana after this election.” Election in the southern Indian state is scheduled to be held later this year.
Congress supporters, officials, party members and members of the Indian community gathered in large numbers at the community event that was also attended by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Apart from the Telangana election, there are elections scheduled for “Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where we will do the same we did to them in Karnataka,” Gandhi said to cheers and applause from the supporters.
“It is not just the Congress party that is going to defeat the BJP. It is the people of India, the people of Madhya Pradesh, the people of Telangana, the people of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh who are going to defeat the BJP,” Mr Gandhi said.
He added that the reason for this is that “India has understood that it cannot go forward with the type of hatred that the BJP is spreading in society.” “That is what is going to happen in the next few states. And then after that in 2024 we will do the same…The opposition is united, we are all working together. It is an ideological battle. On one side, there is a divisive ideology of the BJP, the hate-filled ideology of the BJP. On the other side, there is the affectionate, loving ideology of the Congress party,” he said.
He said in Karnataka, the BJP tried to polarise the election and create anger and hatred between communities.
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