NEW DELHI: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today slammed the Narendra Modi government saying that it is obsessed with power and tries to silence all those who disagree with it, as reported.
The Gandhi scion is chairing a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in the place of his mother and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who’s reportedly unwell and unable to attend.
This is the first time Rahul has presided over a CWC meeting. Top Congress leaders, including Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janardan Dwivedi, Ahmed Patel, Ambika Soni and AK Antony are among those attending the meeting.
Rahul said that asking questions “discomforts this government.” He was referring to comments by Union ministers who have more than once said, in the recent past, that people shouldn’t question the government.
“Hiding behind the cloak of national security, civil society is being intimidated for asking questions… Asking questions is what discomforts this government, for they have no answers, we must expose the government’s failures in the upcoming Parliament session,” Rahul told the CWC gathering.
