On Doklam conflict

सच्चाई ये है कि चीनी आज भी डोकलाम में मौजूद हैं : कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhiInLondon https://t.co/IdSitVe4I9 — Congress (@INCIndia) 1535105861000

On talks with Pakistan

On China

On losing 2014 Lok Sabha polls

The lesson we learned from 2014 is that leadership is about listening and empathy: Congress President @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhiInLondon — Congress (@INCIndia) 1535105860000

On the upcoming 2019 Lok Sabha polls

On alleged dilution of autonomy of the country's institutions

On Centralization of power

On surgical strikes, NRC in Assam

On PM Modi's 'Make In India' initiative

On foreign policy

'There can be millions of different voices in the country'

'India is a country in transition'

"I don't have the details of the conflict. So I can't say how I could have handled it differently.""Doklam is not an isolated issue. It was a part of a sequence of events, it was a process. Prime Minister is episodic. He views Doklam as an event. If he was carefully watching the process, he could've stopped it.""The truth is the Chinese are still in Doklam today.""It is very difficult to talk to Pakistan because there is no one institution which is in complete power. Thus, we will wait until they form a consistent structure.""There is no deeply thought out strategy by PM Modi when it comes to Pakistan.""A similar transformation is happening in China. While ours is a more organic process, the Chinese methodology is a bit violent. China is rising and there are consequences of that rise in the world. India can play a balancing role and build a bridge that can make the world a safer place.”"India specialises in reducing confrontation. The central principle for India is- when someone was asked "whether India leans left or right", the answer was "India stands straight""Although we have a traditional link with the Chinese, with regards to the democratic structure we have more in common with European countries.""At a party level, there was a certain degree of arrogance that had crept into the party after being in ten years in power. The lesson we learned from 2014 is that leadership is about listening and empathy.""If there is an alliance in UP and Bihar then the BJP cannot win the election 2019. An alliance of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in UP and a similar alliance in Bihar will cost the BJP 120 seats.""RSS is trying to change the nature of India. Other parties haven't tried to capture India's institutions. RSS's idea is similar to the idea of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab world.""You can see Indian institutes being toned down one by one."“One of my main complaints about the current government in India is that I don't see a coherent strategy based on India's strengths. I only see knee-jerk reactions.”“If you understand deeply the design of India, you will see that we are punching below our weight. I don't see India maximising its power.”“By creating divisions between 1.3billion people, India's strengths are reduced.”“India's economic power lies in millions of MSMEs- they create jobs. When one bypasses the entire institutional structure and decides to demonetise the nation that is not maximising India's power. The idea of demonetisation came directly from RSS, bypassed the Finance Minister and RBI, and was planted in Prime Minister's head. India's successes have come whenever power has been decentralised. What is going on in the last 4 years is a massive centralisation of power.”Surgical strikes were carried out by the Army, 100 per cent."NRC (in Assam) was started by us. It was our idea. However, there is a serious issue in its implementation. There is a large number of people who are Indians and are not part of the (draft) NRC list.""PM's Make In India find top 15 business in India and helps them. You are not going to generate jobs from them. India can learn from China is how to open up air travel. In China, the local government runs the system. In India PMO runs the system. A PMO office can veto a road in the local district."Businesses had expected a lot from PM Modi. But they are disappointed and are willing to support us. But today, there is an immense amount of pressure from CBI, ED on India's businesses.By breaking the monopoly of MEA and by making it more accessible to other elements of society a modern MEA can be formed. The foreign minister of India spends a massive amount of time in just making visas."The West did not believe in India in 1947. But India proved the West wrong. What allowed us to succeed is that thousands of people built the institutions, and these are the institutions that are under attack today.""Thousands and thousands of people who worked together to accomplish their own tiny revolutions. The idea we defend is that there can be millions of different voices in the country.""Broadly, India has been in a transition over the last 70 years. A rural country has transformed using democratic principles. Our transformation has been peaceful. One unstated principle was that benefits would go to all Indians, no one would be left out. Another principle was that the pace of change will differ for different people. Right to food, work, and information were all structures designed to ease people during the pain of this transformation."