This was Rahul Gandhi's response when a veteran journalist brought up Indira Gandhi at an interaction in London...
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00:00You are being constantly attacked in the Indian media for your Cambridge lecture.
00:06I hope that you will take some lesson from what Mrs. Indira Gandhi said.
00:11Have you actually seen my Cambridge lecture?
00:13You haven't seen it, but you got an opinion on it.
00:30Mr. Gandhi, my name is Suresh Gupta, New World Newspaper.
00:41I'm settled in London since 1961.
00:44And I knew your grandmother, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, through Bal Sahyog in India, because I was
00:51working from 58 to 61 for All India Radio.
00:55And then your great-grandfather, Pandit Nehru, through Bharat Yog Samaj.
00:59You met him?
01:00Yes, I met him.
01:01I used to go to Trimurti house to get their signatures, etc.
01:05Because I had a bicycle and they were just near All India Radio, all these organizations.
01:10So what was your experience in meeting him?
01:13What did you think?
01:14Pandit Nehru was a great man.
01:15I always touched his feet and he always blessed me.
01:20Mrs. Gandhi, your grandmother, was like an elder sister to me.
01:23She helped me a great deal and she was a wonderful woman.
01:26When she came here in a press conference in London, after being imprisoned by Murarji
01:34Desai, a journalist asked her, what is your experience of prison in India?
01:42And she said, I don't want to talk anything bad about India in this conference.
01:48Now you are being constantly attacked in the Indian media for your Cambridge lecture.
01:54I hope that you will take some lesson from what Mrs. Indira Gandhi said.
02:00Because I am your well-wisher and I would like to see you become Prime Minister of India.
02:05What's your question?
02:06There is no question.
02:07So my question is…
02:08What's your question?
02:09Yeah.
02:10There is no question.
02:11Please ask your question otherwise…
02:12In nine years that BJP has been in power, in your opinion, has Modi done anything good
02:20for India at all?
02:23Look, I answered this question a few days ago.
02:29I think the RSS and the BJP are attacking the foundation of our country, attacking the
02:34democratic institutional structure of our country.
02:38I am sure there are one or two policies which I would agree with.
02:45But what…
02:46Which one?
02:47I mean, we don't really need to get into it, I have said it.
02:51But that's not really the point.
02:53The point is that, in my view, they are attacking the foundation of our country.
02:58And that eclipses any policy, any good policy that they do.
03:05So this is so fundamental that to ask me to comment on a good policy or a bad, you know,
03:12one policy that is good and another one that's slightly more effective, it sort of misses
03:16the point.
03:18This to me, this to me is bigger than everything else, right?
03:22Okay, I think…
03:26And by the way, just to touch the first part of your question, have you actually seen my
03:31Cambridge lecture?
03:32Sorry?
03:33Have you seen my Cambridge lecture?
03:34Yeah, good.
03:35I have heard about it.
03:36No, no, no.
03:37Have you seen it?
03:38No.
03:39Okay.
03:41Even without…
03:43So that's interesting.
03:44I mean, you haven't seen it, but you got an opinion on it.
03:47I mean, that's…
03:48Have you seen it?