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Rahul Gandhi's earlier comments at Cambridge University that Indian democracy is under attack and several politicians, including himself, are under surveillance, invited sharp reactions from the BJP that accused him of maligning the country's image on foreign soil after facing successive electoral setbacks.
What clearly emerges from his resounding caution is that no centre can ever hope to subjugate large swathes of India.
Immediately after the Congress leader's speech in parliament, BJP leaders and supporters have come at him all guns blazing – but with sentiment, not fact.
The Congress leader's attack was scathing. No party in power will agree entirely to such remarks. But in BJP's exuberant reaction lies the key to the centrality of today's political issues.