Rahul Gandhi says: “Look, this is happening in Parliament”. Then he turns off his microphone

Speak­ing to a gath­er­ing in Nand­ed, Maha­rash­tra on Wednes­day, Con­gress leader Rahul Gand­hi mut­ed his micro­phone twice to demon­strate what is hap­pen­ing to oppo­si­tion lead­ers in par­lia­ment. “We start­ed this Bharat Jodo Yatra because the media may not be able to sin­gle us out. And look what hap­pened to us in Par­lia­ment,” Rahul Gand­hi said as he turned off his microphone.

Rahul Gand­hi con­tin­ued to speak with the micro­phone off and then when he switched on the micro­phone he said: “At least we are in con­trol here. In Par­lia­ment, they just turn it off in 2 min­utes. We keep watch­ing. When you speak on note ban, micro­phone off. If you’re speak­ing in Chi­nese, mute the mic.” “You keep say­ing what you want. But no one will hear any­thing,” Rahul Gand­hi said. As “ED-ED” slo­gans erupt­ed from the audi­ence, Rahul Gand­hi said, “That’s it there, but no one is afraid of ED.”

Tak­ing up the BJP gov­ern­men­t’s Agni­path pro­gram, he said: “You can serve the coun­try for four years. After four years, you can no longer be a patri­ot. Go home after four years, mic off. This is Agniveer.”

“PM Modi says there was no Chi­nese inva­sion. Then what are the Indi­an side and the Chi­nese side talk­ing about? There were 22 rounds of talks. This is the coun­try’s sit­u­a­tion. That’s why we elim­i­nat­ed the yatra,” said Rahul Gandhi.

Regard­ing invest­ments from Maha­rash­tra, Rahul Gand­hi said that these projects are giv­en to two or three indus­tri­al­ists who are friends of the prime min­is­ter. “Ports, infra­struc­ture, telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, agri­cul­ture were giv­en to these peo­ple,” Gand­hi claimed.

“Don’t be afraid of any­thing. I’m not talk­ing about Naren­dra Modi or RSS. i talk about every­thing And if you are not afraid of any­thing, you will nev­er hate any­thing. This is my mes­sage to the youth of Nand­ed. Work for the coun­try,” said Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gand­hi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra arrived in Maha­rash­tra on Mon­day. On Wednes­day, he and his asso­ciates went from the Shankar­na­gar area in Biloli to Naigaon and on to Krushnoor.

NCP lead­ers Sharad Pawar, Supri­ta Sule, Jayant Patil and Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thack­er­ay will join Rahul Gand­hi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra on Friday.