Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said in an interview he was always attacked by his own party leaders after he pushed for elections in the party at the Youth Congress and NSUI levels.

In a virtual interview with Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University, Rahul Gandhi said, “I am the person who pushed elections in youth organisation and student organisation, and got a serious beating in the press for that. I was literally crucified for doing elections. I was attacked by my own party people."