There will never be a Congress-free India but those wishing so will be decimated, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Thursday.
Addressing reporters in Udaipur on the eve of the Congress' three-day Chintan Shivir, he said the grand old party was the main Opposition party and people look towards it to take on the BJP.
Mr. Gehlot also took on the BJP's turf of nationalism and said the party's leadership, be it former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi or former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, had a long history of sacrifice to protect the unity and integrity of the nation.