“Can Hug Him, But…”: Rahul Gandhi On Estranged Cousin Varun Gandhi

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who’s main the pan-India foot march ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, these days stated he can “lovingly meet” and hug his cousin Varun Gandhi, who’s a BJP leader, however can in no way help the ideology he subscribes to. He stated he’d as an alternative be beheaded than visit the workplace of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — the ideological figure of rival BJP.

“Varun Gandhi is in BJP. If he walks in here, then it is probably a trouble for him. My ideology does not fit his ideology. I can in no way visit the RSS workplace, you may should behead me earlier than that. My own circle of relatives has an ideology, a concept system. Varun as soon as adopted, perhaps nevertheless does, that ideology. He internalised that ideology. I can not be given that,” he stated.

Mr Gandhi discovered that Varun Gandhi had a few years in the past attempted to mention that RSS is doing accurate work. “I informed him when you have study and visible what our own circle of relatives stood for, you would not be given it,” he added.

Varun Gandhi, who made headlines for his inflammatory feedback in opposition to a specific network in speeches at public conferences in Pilibhit for the duration of the 2009 Lok Sabha election campaign, has for a while now been embarrassing his personal birthday birthday celebration, the BJP, over diverse issues.

Varun Gandhi’s disillusionment with the BJP has been truly seen after his mom Maneka Gandhi turned into now no longer re-inducted into the Narendra Modi cupboard in 2019. Several articles written through him in fundamental information organisations, or even a voluminous “rural manifesto”, have now no longer taken a type view of the Narendra Modi government, main to murmurs of him looking to bounce ship.

Rahul Gandhi’s 10 years more youthful cousin, who turned into as soon as the youngest popular secretary of the BJP, has thus far been given an extended rope from his birthday birthday celebration withinside the desire that he’s going to sooner or later get tired, political observers say. Some say Varun Gandhi can also additionally transfer parties, aleven though now no longer always to the Congress, earlier than the following popular elections.