Campaigning in Kerala’s Wayanad for his sister and Congress’ candidate for Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll, Priyanka Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said that his sister represents political values India needs today. He also said that safeguarding and upholding the Constitution was India’s primary struggle.
Rahul said, “The main fight in the country today that is taking place today is the fight for the Constitution of our country. The protection that we get, the greatness of our country, all emerged from the Constitution.”
He said that the Constitution was written with humility and not anger or hatred.
“The Constitution was not written with anger or with hatred. It was written by the people who fought the British, the people who had suffered, who spent years and years and years in jail. And they wrote the Constitution with humility, with love and with affection,” he said.
Recalling a discussion he had with Priyanka after she met former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassin in Tamil Nadu’s prison, Rahul said, “She is the person who went and hugged the girl (Nalini) who was implicated in my father’s assassination. After Priyanka met Nalini, she went emotional and then she said to me that I’m feeling bad for her.”
