Rahul Gandhi said that once the ‘original base’ of the Congress party is back, the BJP and the RSS would have to run away. ‘If the Congress party supported and maintained the confidence of Dalits, backwards, the RSS could never have come to power,’ he added

Rahul Gandhi's comment that the Congress has lost the confidence of Dalits because it did not protect the interests of the Dalits and backwards the way it should have in the 1990s, has been accepted by the young generation of the party.