‘PM Modiji looks at rear-view mirror, that’s why his car crashing’: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing a gathering of the Indian diaspora in New York said the Congress did not blame the British for the train accidents that took place during its rule but the minister took the responsibility.

“BJP and RSS are incapable of looking at the future. Whatever you ask them, they will look backwards. If you ask the government why the train accident happened, they will say that Congress did this 50 years ago. Why did you remove evolution and the periodic table from the textbook? They would say see Congress did it 60 years ago. Their immediate response is ‘peeche dekho’.

The attack comes as a massive triple-train collision in Odisha’s Balasore killed around 270 people and injured hundreds of others — in one of the most deadliest train accidents since Independence. As the signalling mistake — which probably made the Coromandel Express jump on a goods train and then hit another passenger train coming from the opposite direction — has raised several questions, Rahul Gandhi commented on it at the global platform as he did not miss to touch upon the recent issue of the periodic table and evolution getting axed from textbooks.

‘Modi drives car looking rear-view mirror’

“Now think about it. All of you came here using your cars. Imagine if the only thing you did was look at your rear-view mirror. Could you drive your car? You would be having one accident after the other. That’s the phenomenon of Narendra Modi ji. He is trying to drive the Indian car and he only looks at the rear-view mirror. And he does not understand why the car is crashing, not moving forward. This is the same thing with the BJP and the RSS. You listen to them, their ministers. You will never find them talking about the future; they are always talking about the past and they will always blame somebody for the past,” Rahul Gandhi said.

‘Congress did not blame British for train accident’

Referring to the issue of train mishaps, Rahul Gandhi said, “I remember a train accident when the Congress party was in power. The Congress Party did not get up and say it is the fault of the British that the train has crashed. No, the Congress minister, I remember, said it is my responsibility that the train crashed, I am resigning. So this is the problem that we have back home, that we make excuses and we are not accepting the reality that we are faced with.”

‘Fight between Mahatma Gandhi and Godse’

Talking about the ideological fight between Congress and the BJP-RSS, Rahul Gandhi said it is like the fight between Mahatma Gandhi and Nathuram Godse. “On one side, you have Mahatma Gandhi and on the other side, you have Nathuram Godse. This is the most precise way to describe the fight. On one hand, a strong NRI like you and on the other side Nathuram Godse — violent, angry, unable to face the reality of his own life. The reason he shot Gandhi was he could not face his own life. So he had to take his anger on somebody— he chose to take on it on the essence of India. Gandhiji was forward-looking, modern, open-minded. Godse only spoke of the past, he never spoke of the future. He was angry, hateful and frankly he was scared. At heart, he was a coward. He was unable to deal with his lie. On the other hand, Gandhiji faced the biggest force on the planet, the superpower, more powerful than the US is today,” Rahul Gandhi said.