Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (January 30, 2026) said Mahatma Gandhi is not just a person, but a way of thinking that an empire, an ideology of hatred and arrogance of power, unsuccessfully tried to erase at different points in time.

Terming Mahatma Gandhi the "immortal soul of India", the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha paid tributes to the Father of the Nation, saying that along with Independence, he gave the nation a fundamental principle that the power of truth is greater than the power of authority.

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"Mahatma Gandhi is not just a person, but a way of thinking that an empire, an ideology of hatred, and an arrogance of power have all unsuccessfully tried to erase at different points in time," he said in a post in Hindi on X.

महात्मा गांधी एक व्यक्ति नहीं, एक सोच हैं - वह सोच जिसे कभी एक साम्राज्य ने, कभी एक नफ़रत की विचारधारा ने और कभी अहंकारी सत्ता ने मिटाने की असफल कोशिश की।