Rahul Gandhi’s subtle but outspoken voice has once again woven echoes of curiosity and reasoning. The Congress scion, widely seen as India's prime minister-in-waiting, has sounded a stark warning about globalisation, saying it "excludes as much as includes".
Rahul, 41, made the remarks while giving the 20th anniversary lecture of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies in New Delhi. "The local networks that protected them no longer exist," he added.
He urged people to incorporate the Buddhist idea of "compassion" into their lives to meet the challenges posed by globalisation. This notion of his driven by his secular thought and respect to all religion.
“While a new ‘mobile and dynamic’ India is emerging,” he said, "that does not mean that our success is inevitable." Rahul said there were also major areas of want and neglect in a country where three-quarters of the 1.2 billion population survive on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. His facts and figures were very correct and selective, as has always been.
Rahul also said that increasing urbanisation in India was leaving many people behind. "Today’s migration is tremendous and dynamic, but it is a process that leaves people bereft of justice and of rights," he said. Rahul Gandhi’s concern for the threat that globalization can become to the nation, is something to ponder over.
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