Everybody knows who wins when someone stands against India: Rahul Gandhi
Bengaluru(PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said everybody knows who the winner is when someone stands against India and nobody has been able to fight the idea of India. Addressing the media here after deliberations between opposition leaders for the second day, Gandhi said the 2024 Lok Sabha polls are going to be a fight between "INDIA" and Narendra Modi.
The opposition has named its alliance as INDIA -- the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance -- as announced at the press conference after the meeting of the parties.
"All of you know who wins when anyone stands against India.... There is no need to spell it out," Gandhi said. The former Congress chief also said it is known to everyone what happens to those who oppose or attempt to fight the idea of India.
"You can look in our history and you will see that nobody has been able to fight the idea of India. So I do not need to go into who is going to win this fight. This is a fight between the idea of India and the idea of the BJP.... This is a fight between INDIA and the BJP.... It is a fight between INDIA and Mr Narendra Modi," he said.
Gandhi also said Tuesday's opposition meeting, the second in a series, was very successful and things moved "very smoothly" during the deliberations that lasted for more than four hours.
He said the idea of India is being attacked today by the ideology of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The wealth of the country is being snatched from the millions and millions of countrymen and handed over to a few businessmen "who are close to the prime minister and the BJP", the Congress leader alleged.
Noting that unemployment is spreading and prices are rising, he said this is what the fight is all about.
"The fight is about two different ideas of India and while we were having this discussion ... this name frankly emerged from the discussion because we asked ourselves what is the fight ... whom is the fight between?
"We realised that the fight is not between two political formations.... The fight is to defend the idea of India and that is why, we came up with the name -- Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, which also happens to stand for INDIA and what we are doing here as a group," the former Congress chief said.
Gandhi also said "we are defending the Indian Constitution, the voice of the Indian people, the idea of our great country ... the idea of India". He said the third opposition meeting will be held in Maharashtra, where some key decisions will be taken.
"All of us have decided that we will prepare an action plan and move forward together and tell people about our ideology and what we plan to do for the country," Gandhi said.
He thanked all the leaders for attending the meeting. Subsequently, in a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said: "Bharat will be united, INDIA will win."
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Karnataka: Six men break into jewellery shop; loot gold, silver worth over Rs 40 lakh
Haveri (Karnataka) (PTI): Six unidentified men allegedly broke into a jewellery shop and decamped with gold and silver articles worth over Rs 40 lakh in this district in the wee hours of Saturday, police said.
The theft occurred at a jewellery shop in Chikkanshihosur village in Hanagal taluk of Haveri district between 1.45 am and 2.30 am, they said.
According to police, the six men, with their faces covered and wearing gloves, allegedly broke into the shop after midnight by cutting open both shutters.
After gaining entry, they covered three of the four CCTV cameras installed inside the shop and decamped with a safe locker. However, their act was recorded on one CCTV camera that was not covered.
Citing preliminary investigations, a senior police officer said 19 kg of silver items worth Rs 21 lakh and 219 grams of gold ornaments worth Rs 22 lakh were stolen from the shop.
A case of theft has been registered, he said.
“We have some clues about the vehicle used to transport the stolen jewellery, and efforts are underway to trace the vehicle and nab the suspects involved in the theft,” he added.
Further investigation is underway.
