Rahul Gandhi, while speaking in the US, said, "The central architect of modern India was an NRI. Mahatma Gandhi was an NRI." He added, "All our leaders in the freedom movement, my great grandfather Nehru ji...Ambedkar ji...Sardar Patel...Subhash Chandra Bose...all of them were NRIs. All were...people who had an open mind to the outside world.''