Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday compared the approaches of the Congress and BJP to Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler, respectively. Beginning his two-day tour of Maharashtra from Shirpur in the tribal dominated Dhule district in north Maharashtra where he interacted with adivasi students at a local engineering college, Gandhi said that the German dictator shouted as he lacked confidence. “But did Gandhiji ever shoutIJ. He did not. That was because he was confident,” he said.
“like Mahatma Gandhi, humbleness while speaking is a sign of extreme self-confidence. Confidence should not be seen as aggression…There is no need for saying things aggressively. You can say it with love. Many people will be with you,” Gandhiji said.
“If anyone, be it Rahul Gandhi or Prithviraj Chavan, says he knows better than you, he is telling a lie,” Gandhi said.Gandhi said whether he became the Prime Minister or not was immaterial but what mattered most was that all Indians, including women and youth, should feel that India was their country.
“My becoming or not becoming Prime Minister does not matter. What is most important is that everyone here, especially women and youth, feels that India is his or her own country,” Gandhi said.
Gandhi exhorted the tribal youth to join mainstream politics. “My request to you, especially the tribal youth, is to join mainstream politics… My message to the country’s youth is that the talent and capability the youth here have is not there anywhere else,” Gandhi said.