Rahul Gandhi says Emergency was a mistake, but Congress didn’t ‘capture India’s institutional framework’

Gandhi alleged that the RSS is doing something ‘fundamentally different’ and filling up the institutions of the country with its people

File image of Rahul Gandhi. Image credits: Twitter @INCIndia

New Delhi: Terming the Emergency that was imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi a “mistake”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said what happened during that period was “wrong”, but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress at no point attempted to capture the country’s institutional framework.

In a conversation with Kaushik Basu, professor in the Cornell University in the US and India’s former chief economic advisor, Gandhi said he is all for internal democracy in the…

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