Rahul Gandhi Accuses BJP of 'Wholesale Capture' of India's Institutional Framework "We are in a paradigm where the institutions that are supposed to protect us do not protect us anymore," the Congress leader said. Nicholas Burns and Rahul Gandhi. Photo: Twitter/RahulGandhi Politics03/Apr/2021 New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the BJP has overseen a “wholesale capture” of India’s institutional framework, changing the paradigm in which opposition parties operate post-2014 and that the institutions that are supposed to support a fair political fight do not do so anymore. In a conversation with Harvard University professor and former US undersecretary of state for political affairs Nicholas Burns, Gandhi said in order to fight elections, there is a need for institutional structures, protection by the judicial system, a reasonably free media, financial parity and a set of institutional structures that allow his party to operate as a political party, but all of this is not there.