Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed a group of Indian diaspora in San Francisco in the United States of America.
He said before starting his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, he realised that the normal tools that have historically been used in politics were not working anymore.
"The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies. The Bharat Jodo Yatra started because all the instruments that we needed to connect with the people were controlled by the BJP-RSS," he said.
"We were also finding that in some way, it had become quite difficult to act politically. And that's why we decided to walk from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar," he said.
Gandhi said, "If you sat Modiji next to god, Modiji would start explaining to god how the universe works."
The Congress leader arrived in the US on May 30 for a three-city US tour during which he will interact with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.
(With PTI inputs)