“Vanvasi’ Vs Adivasi: Why Rahul Gandhi gets it all wrong”, Swarajyamag, July 8, 2023:
“In the aftermath of the Sidhi incident, the Twitter handle of the Congress party shared a video of its former president.
In this video Rahul Gandhi states (paraphrased):
‘We call you Adivasi. He (Modi) calls you Vanvasi because he wants to take away your rights. Vanvasi has three meanings:
1. You are not the original owners of this country;
2. You do not have rights outside the forests;
3. BJP governments across India are destroying jungles and giving them to industrialists. So when all the jungles are finished you will have no place in the country’.
Is there any truth to these statements?…..”
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