Rahul Gandhi claims Democracy was destroyed in India in 2014, cites money power in elections

Speaking at the Bharat Summit 2026 in Hyderabad, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi stated that the 2014 Lok Sabha elections marked a fundamental shift driven by massive amounts of money and institutional capture that marginalized opposition parties. He alleged that India’s democracy "was destroyed in 2014" when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power.