'No Country Can Progress Without Giving Equal Place To Women': Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his election campaign on Saturday said that India is being controlled a 'male chauvinist' and 'fascist' organisation. The politician claimed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sang (RSS) discriminates against women and that it has done so since the beginning. 

Rahul Gandhi is on a three-day election campaign in Coimbatore and Tirupur. He addressed the public on the matters concerning the central government and the plight of Tamil Nadu under the BJP rule and the state of women. He said, " I agree that without giving equal place to women no country can progress." He opined that India is currently run the organisation RSS and called 'male chauvinist'. He said that RSS doesn't include women. 

They (RSS) discriminate against women from the beginning. Any organisation that doesn't let women in it obviously doesn't respect women. If you respected women, you would have given them equal space in your organisation: Rahul Gandhi, Congress https://t.co/s2f7Vd8ZWQ

— ANI (@ANI) January 23, 2021

"Any organisation that doesn't let women in it obviously doesn't respect women. If you respected women, you would have given them equal space in your organisation," he added. 

The politician also alleged that the people of Tamil Nadu are being suppressed and disrespected by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling party BJP. He also claimed that the state government of Tamil Nadu led by AIADMK is compromised. He said, " Just because Modi controls the Tamil Nadu government, he cannot control the Tamil people." 

While criticising the central government, Rahul Gandhi also said that he is going to 'maybe' learn the Tamil language. He said, "Ruling party believes that for sake of efficiency of growth, diverse factors need to be homogenised."

"We don’t believe in that. We believe that if Tamil Nadu is India then India is Tamil Nadu too. I respect Tamil language & maybe will learn it. Vannakam!” he added. 

Elections in the state of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are scheduled to take place in 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited West Bangal today to attend Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary event.