Rahul Gandhi called Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B R Ambedkar and other Indian leaders "NRIs" at a meeting with Congress supporters in New York.
NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has described prominent leaders of India's freedom struggle as "NRIs" (non-resident Indian) and said the party was born of an "NRI movement".
"The creative congress movement was an NRI movement. Mahatma Gandhi was an NRI, Jawaharlal Nehru came back from England, Ambedkar, Azad, Patel, these were all NRIs," Rahul said repeatedly on Thursday.
Convoluted on his unconventional view of the nation's founding fathers, Rahul said, "Every single one of them went to the outside world, returned back to India and used some of the ideas they transformed India."
Rahul said there were thousands of such "NRIs" whose contribution to India is yet to be recognized. Citing the example of Verghese Kurien, father of the White Revolution, Rahul pointed out that he feel right to the category of a non-resident Indian as well.
"One of the biggest successes in India, the milk that most of India drinks, it was man called Mr Kurien, he was an NRI. He came from the United States and he altered India... There are thousands of examples that we have not recognized," he claimed.
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