Updated Mar 03, 2021 | 12:01 IST Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said he understood the profoundness of the "strangling of democracy in India" only after he faced similar situations. Rahul Gandhi  |  Photo Credit: IANS Key Highlights He, however, said the Emergency days and the current situation are fundamentally different The Congress leader accused the RSS of trying to capture India's institutions New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ideologue, and accused it of attempting to capture the country’s institutions. Rahul, while conversing with Kaushik Basu, professor in Cornell University in the US and India's former chief economic advisor, alleged that the RSS is filling up India’s institutions with its people.