Congress will wipe out BJP in next assembly poll: Rahul Gandhi

Washington: Rahul Gandhi has said that the BJP will be “decimated” in the next three-four assembly elections by the Congress, emphasising that they have the basic requirements that are needed to defeat the ruling party which do not have the support of the vast majority of the Indian population.

These remarks were made by Gandhi, who is in the US for a three-city US tour, on Thursday at a reception hosted for him by eminent Indian American Frank Islam. “There is a tendency of people to believe that this sort of juggernaut of the RSS and the BJP is unstoppable. This is not the case. I will make a little prediction here. You will see that the next three or four elections that we fight directly with the BJP will be decimated,” Gandhi said in response to a question at the reception.

“I can give it to you right now, that they are gonna have a really tough time in these assembly elections. We will do to them the very similar stuff that we have done in Karnataka. But if you ask the Indian media that’s not going to happen,” he said.

The visiting leader told the invited group of Indian Americans, members of the think-tank community and lawmakers that the Indian press is currently giving a highly favourable version of the BJP. “Please realise that 60 per cent of India does not vote for the BJP, does not vote for Narendra Modi. That is something you have to remember. The BJP has the instruments of noise in their hand, so they can shout, they can scream, they can distort, they can yell, and they are much better at doing that. But they do not have the vast majority of the Indian population (supporting them),” he said.

Responding to another question, Gandhi said that he is convinced that the Congress will be able to defeat the BJP.