BHUBANESHWAR: Today, in Bhubaneshwar, Rahul Gandhi, lying on the front to attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi almost every day, twice a day, clarified that he will fight him but doesn't hate him. He said at the "The Odisha Dialogue" in Bhubaneswar that "He realises he (PM Modi) disagrees with me and He disagrees with him, and he will fight him and he will try and make sure that he is not the prime minister but he doesn't hate him. he gave him the right to have his opinion."

He also said he "felt like hugging" PM Modi whenever he attacked him.

"I look at Mr Modi and when he abuses me, I feel like giving him a hug...," Rahul Gandhi. "He is upset with the Congress party. I understand that also but we are not angry with him. That's our design, we don't hate people." Rahul Gandhi said ministries under the Modi government were being controlled by the RSS. The RSS imprint, he said, was evident everywhere in the government and that the outfit wants to penetrate and control all institutions in the country.

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Earlier, Rahul Gandhi's act of walking across the Lok Sabha to hug the prime minister in July left many stunned and caught PM Modi off guard. The BJP later caught on the Congress president's wink to his colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia right after that hug, which, the party said, deceived his dishonesty.

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