Rahul Gandhi...

“We are fighting against attempts to impose rigid, hate-fuelled angry ideology of the RSS in the country, its attempts to capture and destroy institutions nurtured and developed over 70 years. There is a sustained attack on the weak,” he added. The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, is the oldest Islamist political group in the Arab world but several countries do not allow it to operate as a political party. Mohamed Badie, its leader, is currently in prison and it has been labelled a terror organisation by Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Gandhi targeted the RSS for the second time in as many days.

On Thursday, addressing the Indian diaspora at an event in Berlin, he said the Congress binds together the people of India while the BJP and RSS divides them and spreads hatred.

Hitting back, BJP spokesman Sambit Patra demanded Gandhi to apologies to 125 crore Indians and stop his job of acting as a “contract killer for the idea of India”. Patra reacted strongly to Gandhi likening the RSS to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked if a terrorist outfit was ruling India? “Are you suggesting that the government of India is working like a terrorist organsiation and expanding through invasion?” Patra asked Gandhi. “What Rahul Gandhi has done in London is unforgivable.”

Gandhi also spoke on other issues such as India’s relations with China. The alleged presence of Chinese troops in the Doklam region reflects the Narendra Modi government’s “episodic” and “event-centric” approach to foreign policy, he said as he listed a catalogue of the administration’s perceived failures.

Describing the Modi government’s handling of the standoff with China at Doklam as an example of its alleged failure, Gandhi said the face-off was not a one-off event but part of a sequence of events. He regretted