This is Tandava, Shiva’s dance, there’s no planning in it and everyone is welcome, Rahul Gandhi said on Monday when asked about his protest strategy against the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls
“The plan was that we would go by bus, sit there, and get arrested. The police wouldn’t let us go. So we changed the plan. Did the result come from the plan, or did it come from the non-plan? There is no need for any plan. This dance is ongoing. This is Lord Shiva’s dance going on. In this, anyone can join Shiva’s procession ( Shiv ki Baraat ). The Congress leader then cited his Bharat Jodo Yatra, saying it acted as a unifier. “In the Bharat Jodo Yatra, there was no king; everyone walked together, and the people of India embraced one another. “Yes, multiple people have reached out. It’s interesting they don’t reach out to me though, they reach out to people around me. They understand that. This is communication with the government (he points to the ongoing conversation with the press). I don’t need to talk to them on the phone. There’s nothing that I do that is hidden from the people of India. Full transparency. What I have to say to the government and to the people of India, I say it from here (points to the stage).
Anyone who wants to join, can come,” he said. It was a Tandava, a procession of Lord Shiva,” he said. Asked if the government has reached out to him, Gandhi said not to him directly. I say it on the street,” Gandhi said.
“We are not fighting for the street, we are fighting for the mind, heart of Indian people and telling Indian people that this type of India is dangerous for you,” Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, said at a press conference today. Quoting a discussion about strategy he had with his sister, Priyanka Gandhi, Gandi said he told her “she did not understand”.
