The original Congress movement was an NRI movement. Mahatma Gandhi was an NRI, Jawaharlal Nehru came back from England. (BR) Ambedkar, (Abul Kalam) Azad, (Sardar) Patel they were all NRIs,” he told a select gathering.
“Every single one of them went to the outside world, saw the outside world, returned to India and used some of the ideas that they had got and transformed India,” he said, adding that father of the White Revolution in India, Verghese Kurien, was also an NRI.
In a veiled attack on the Modi government, Gandhi said: “divisive politics was ruining India’s reputation abroad”.
“NRIs in the tradition of the great NRIs before them should stand up to those dividing India now,” he added.
Gandhi also praised Sam Pitroda, who was an adviser to his father Rajiv Gandhi and to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as another NRI who helped transform India.
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