Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that India is witnessing the "death of democracy" and anybody who raises people's issues and stands against the onset of dictatorship is "viciously attacked" and put in jail.
Addressing a Press conference at the AICC headquarters ahead of the nationwide protest by the Congress against price rise and GST hike on essential items, Rahul said the Gandhi family is attacked because it fights for democracy and for communal harmony. He charged that the sole agenda of the government is that people's issues such as price rise, unemployment and violence in society must not be raised.
The idea is that people's issues, whether they are price rise, unemployment, violence in society, must not be raised, Rahul said, alleging that the more he raises people's issues and speaks the truth, the more he will be attacked.
"My problem is that I speak the truth and I do not fear anything. I will raise issues of price rise, and I will be attacked more. But, the one who threatens himself fears," he claimed, alleging that they fear price rise, unemployment and the power of people.
The Congress leader further alleged that no institution in the country is independent and the entire infrastructure of the government is with one party.
"There is financial monopoly and institutional monopoly, that is why the opposition is not effective," he said. On BJP's claim that they have been winning elections, he said, "Hitler also used to win elections. He had the entire institutional structure with him. Give me the power on the institutions and I will show you how elections are won."