As you may be aware, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is reading the Upanishads and the Bhagwad Gita to 'take on the RSS and the BJP'.

In fact, Rahul is being tutored through every chapter of both the religious texts and it can now be revealed that it is former environment minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh who has been hand-holding Rahul by using condensed versions of the texts.

Ramesh has memorised all the 18 chapters of the Gita and can chant some of the important shlokas of the Gita without referring to notes.

Many seniors in the Congress called up Ramesh after Rahul went public with the news that he was trying to understand both the Gita and the Upanishads.

Gandhi spoke at length in the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and evinced a keen interest to read both the texts.

"Nowadays, I study the Upanishads and the Gita since I am fighting the RSS and BJP," he said addressing party functionaries in Chennai.

"I ask them (RSS men), my friend, you are doing this, you are oppressing people, but it is written in the Upanishad that all people are the same and how come you are contradicting what your own religion says," party sources quoted him as having told them.

He alleged that BJP does not fundamentally "understand India," and "understand only Nagpur," headquarters of the RSS.