London journalist's Indira Gandhi lesson for Rahul

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This was Rahul Gandhi's response when a veteran journalist brought up Indira Gandhi at an interaction in London...

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00:00You are being constantly attacked in the Indian media for your Cambridge lecture.

00:06I hope that you will take some lesson from what Mrs. Indira Gandhi said.

00:11Have you actually seen my Cambridge lecture?

00:13You haven't seen it, but you got an opinion on it.

00:30Mr. Gandhi, my name is Suresh Gupta, New World Newspaper.

00:41I'm settled in London since 1961.

00:44And I knew your grandmother, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, through Bal Sahyog in India, because I was

00:51working from 58 to 61 for All India Radio.

00:55And then your great-grandfather, Pandit Nehru, through Bharat Yog Samaj.

00:59You met him?

01:00Yes, I met him.

01:01I used to go to Trimurti house to get their signatures, etc.

01:05Because I had a bicycle and they were just near All India Radio, all these organizations.

01:10So what was your experience in meeting him?

01:13What did you think?

01:14Pandit Nehru was a great man.

01:15I always touched his feet and he always blessed me.

01:20Mrs. Gandhi, your grandmother, was like an elder sister to me.

01:23She helped me a great deal and she was a wonderful woman.

01:26When she came here in a press conference in London, after being imprisoned by Murarji

01:34Desai, a journalist asked her, what is your experience of prison in India?

01:42And she said, I don't want to talk anything bad about India in this conference.

01:48Now you are being constantly attacked in the Indian media for your Cambridge lecture.

01:54I hope that you will take some lesson from what Mrs. Indira Gandhi said.

02:00Because I am your well-wisher and I would like to see you become Prime Minister of India.

02:05What's your question?

02:06There is no question.

02:07So my question is…

02:08What's your question?

02:09Yeah.

02:10There is no question.

02:11Please ask your question otherwise…

02:12In nine years that BJP has been in power, in your opinion, has Modi done anything good

02:20for India at all?

02:23Look, I answered this question a few days ago.

02:29I think the RSS and the BJP are attacking the foundation of our country, attacking the

02:34democratic institutional structure of our country.

02:38I am sure there are one or two policies which I would agree with.

02:45But what…

02:46Which one?

02:47I mean, we don't really need to get into it, I have said it.

02:51But that's not really the point.

02:53The point is that, in my view, they are attacking the foundation of our country.

02:58And that eclipses any policy, any good policy that they do.

03:05So this is so fundamental that to ask me to comment on a good policy or a bad, you know,

03:12one policy that is good and another one that's slightly more effective, it sort of misses

03:16the point.

03:18This to me, this to me is bigger than everything else, right?

03:22Okay, I think…

03:26And by the way, just to touch the first part of your question, have you actually seen my

03:31Cambridge lecture?

03:32Sorry?

03:33Have you seen my Cambridge lecture?

03:34Yeah, good.

03:35I have heard about it.

03:36No, no, no.

03:37Have you seen it?

03:38No.

03:39Okay.

03:41Even without…

03:43So that's interesting.

03:44I mean, you haven't seen it, but you got an opinion on it.

03:47I mean, that's…

03:48Have you seen it?

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