"We are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian State itself," Rahul Gandhi again indulges in old Indian self-goal "come bull ... hit me hard"

The Congress on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025 moved to its new headquarters on 9A Kotla Road from 24, Akbar Road.

"Do not think that we are fighting a fair fight. 

There is no fairness in this. If you believe that we are fighting a political organisation called the BJP or RSS, you have not understood what is going on. 

The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of our country. We are now fighting the BJP, the RSS and the Indian State itself," Congress leader 

Rahul Gandhi said. 

The occasion was solemn too. Inauguration of new headquarters for the AICC. 

"Hidden no more, Congress's ugly truth now stands exposed by their own leader," said J P Nadda. 

The BJP was quick not to miss the opportunity. The Lotus party said the "ugly truth" of India's grand old party "stands exposed by their own leader".

Union Health Minister and BJP national president JP Nadda said Rahul Gandhi and his "ecosystem" have close links with "urban naxals" and the "Deep State" who want to "defame, demean and discredit" India.

"Hidden no more, Congress's ugly truth now stands exposed by their own leader. I 'compliment' Rahul Gandhi for saying clearly what the nation knows - that he is fighting the Indian state! 

His repeated actions have also strengthened this belief. Everything he has done or said has been in the direction of breaking India and dividing our society," Nadda tweeted.

BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman were also among those who attacked Gandhi.

"Rahul Gandhi has now declared open war against the Indian State itself. This is straight out of George Soros's playbook," Malviya tweeted, referring to the billionaire American-Hungarian investor. 

The BJP has on several occasions accused the Congress of colluding with Soros to destabilise the government.

SACHIN PILOT DEFENDS RAHUL GANDHI

However, Rahul Gandhi's remarks were defended by senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot, who stressed that there was a "decline in the reliability" of organisations such as the Election Commission.

"You all know that the Centre is working in a strategic manner to weaken the constitutional organisations. We want transparency and accountability should be fixed. 

We should get answers to questions that we ask inside and outside Parliament. 

All the constitutional organisations will have to be unbiased, transparent and credible," Pilot said.

After five decades at 24, Akbar Road, the Congress has moved to a new headquarters, Indira Bhawan, a kilometre from the BJP head office at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg. 

Wary of having an office on a road named after the long-dead RSS ideologue, the Congress is using its back door as the main entrance. It has preferred Kotla to Upadhyay.  

This will lend the new Congress headquarters, Indira Bhawan, the address of 9 A, Kotla Marg.

The Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress's immediate neighbour in the area, has its headquarters at 206, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.

The Kotla Marg is named after the iconic 14th-Century fort, Firoz Shah Kotla, built by Delhi Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq.

The new Indira Bhawan is hardly a kilometre away from BJP's swanky five-storey national headquarters at 6, Deen Dayal Upadhay Marg that PM Narendra Modi inaugurated in 2018.

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24 AKBAR ROAD, A WITNESS TO CONGRESS' HISTORY

From Indira Gandhi's return in 1980, her assassination, and Rajiv Gandhi's landslide victory in 1984, to the times of PV Narasimha Rao, the party's decade-long rule after being away from power from 1996 to 2004, its resurgence under Sonia Gandhi, and its collapse in 2014, the historic headquarters at 24, Akbar Road has stood as a silent observer to it all.

The bungalow was built by Sir Edwin Lutyens between 1911 and 1925, and was regarded as a fine example of a blend of British colonial architecture and the new modernist style,