India, April 27 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that democratic politics have fundamentally changed across the globe and the rules that applied a decade ago no longer hold good.

Addressing the concluding session of the two-day Bharat Summit-2025 in Hyderabad, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said that the traditional tools of politics are no longer effective against the modern concentration of capital, media, and social media.

Gandhi said the old model of political leadership is now "obsolete" and a new kind of leadership must be constructed, and added that the real challenge lies in reclaiming democratic spaces and reimagining priorities such as healthcare.

"The tools that once worked cannot stand up to the m...