Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and challenged him to a debate on national security, Rafale and economy.
"I know his (Modi) character after fighting him for five years. He is a coward. When someone stands up to him, he runs away," Gandhi said at the national convention of the AICC minority department in New Delhi.
The Congress president said fear was writ large on Modi's face.
"He now knows you can't rule India by dividing people," he said in his speech in Hindi.
Gandhi also alleged that the RSS was trying to capture the institutions of the country and his party's governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh will remove the organisation's loyalists from the system.
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"We have not merely formed governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh... we will ensure that RSS people put in institutions in these states are removed," he said.
“They (BJP) think they are above the nation, but in three months they will understand that nation is above them," the Congress president said.
(With inputs from PTI)
