Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday speaking at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) slammed the Narendra Modi government saying that it is obsessed with power and tries to silence all those who disagree with it. Rahul is chairing the meeting in the place of his mother and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who’s reportedly unwell and unable to attend.
Top Congress leaders, including Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Janardan Dwivedi, Ahmed Patel, Ambika Soni and AK Antony are among those attending the meeting.
This is the first time Rahul has presided over a CWC meeting.
Guiding the CWC gathering Rahul said, “Hiding behind the cloak of national security, civil society is being intimidated for asking questions … Asking questions is what discomforts this government, for they have no answers, we must expose the government’s failures in the upcoming Parliament session.”
Rahul also spoke on the one-day government ban imposed on NDTV India saying, “Television channels are being punished and asked to shut down. Democracy, under the present dispensation, is going through one of its darkest hours.”
