Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a sharp and frontal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of running a one-man show and his party, the BJP, of lacking internal democracy, saying only the ideology of the RSS now rules India.

"If it is about the farmers, only one man knows the answers. If it is education, again the same man knows. If you want to talk about clothes, then also the same man is the authority," Rahul said at a NSUI event in New Delhi in what was yet another swipe at Modi's monogrammed pin-striped Rs 10 lakh suit.

After he returned from a controversial 56-day sabbatical last month, Rahul, in his first intervention in the land bill debate in Parliament, had called the Modi government a 'suit-boot ki sarkar', a remark he has repeated at various occasions after that.

Rahul spent a good part of his brief, 15-minute address attacking the RSS, the ideological mentor of the BJP, accusing the right-wing organisation of forcing its ideas upon a "complex" nation. "Go to an RSS shakha. What do you see there? Order. People in one straight line. Nobody is allowed to speak," he said.

"Talk to any RSS leader. They say this is how things should be and this is how the country should be run. Nothing will change for thousands of years and nothing will change for thousands of years," the 44-year-old leader said.

"There is no internal dialogue in the BJP. Now they want to stop the internal dialogue in India," he said.

Here are the highlights of his speech:

    Different voices can be heard in the meetings
    The Congress party believes in discipline, but I have understood the reality slowly in the last 10 years
    Earlier, I would wonder why there was no order. Now, I understand why
    Our organisation wants to hear every voice. It's in our DNA. Our strength
    There is internal dialogue in the Congress party
    Discipline is a way of killing individuality. That is what others (BJP) think
    We say you should talk about everything. They say you cannot talk about Telangana or anything else
    PM went to China, France, Nepal and even Mongolia, but he didn't visit any farmer or labourer
    They said they will bring back black money in 100 days. One year has gone past, but black money hasn't come yet
    Country is run by RSS' ideology
    RSS does not allow for debate or dialogue, discipline is used as excuse to suppress individuality
    Wherever they want to impose RSS ideology, you stop them
    PM Modi wants to go all the Mongolia, but does not go to a farmer's home
    PM Modi says education is important, but does not want to spend on education
    PM invited Dr Manmohan Singh for an hour-long lesson on the economy