Washington, D.C., US: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said, “Before the elections, we kept emphasizing the idea that institutions have been taken over… RSS has taken over the education system. Media and investigative agencies have been taken over. We kept saying this but people were not understanding it… I started putting the Constitution forward and whatever I said, suddenly burst out… Poor India,

oppressed India, which understood that if the Constitution is over, the whole game will be over… Poor people understood deeply that this is a fight between those who protect the Constitution and those who destroy it… The issue of caste census also became big… These things suddenly started coming together… I don’t think the BJP would have been close to 246 in a fair election. They had a huge financial advantage. They had closed our bank accounts… The Election Commission was doing what they wanted. The whole campaign was built in such a way that Let Narendra Modi do his work across the country. The states where he was weak were designed differently from the states where he was strong. I don’t see this as a free election. I see it as a controlled election.”