Emergency was a mistake, says Rahul Gandhi

 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has admitted that Emergency in 1975 was absolutely a mistake, And my grandmother said as much. But the Congress party did not want to capture India's institutions. We do not have that capability," Rahul Gandhi said. In a video interacting with economist, professor Kaushik Basu on Tuesday he said -I think that was a mistake.

"What RSS is doing today is something different. They are capturing all constitutional institutions. So even if we defeat the BJP, we are not going to get rid of the RSS people in the institutions," Gandhi said citing the present situation in Pondicherry. He also mentioned how the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh could not work because of the RSS force in all institutions. On being asked about internal democracy in the party, Rahul Gandhi said "Nobody asks whether there is internal democracy in BJP, BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) or Samajwadi Party (SP). There is a reason. We are an ideological formation. So it is more important for us to be democratic. It doesn't matter whether others are," Rahul added.