congress leader Rahul Gandhi told the Indian diaspora in the United Kingdom that it is the “duty” of every Indian, everywhere in the world, to “speak up for India’s core values and defend our beloved democracy”.
His answer came after a woman in the audience said, “I feel very sad about the state of our country. My father was an RSS man, and a proud one, but he doesn’t recognize the country that it is now.” How can we engage and empower our democracy for those of us who are outside our country?”
It is the duty of every Indian, everywhere in the world, to stand up for India’s core values and protect our beloved democracy. pic.twitter.com/MQQweHkch4— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 7, 2023
BJP leader Amit Malviya took to News18 on a new video clip tweeted by BJP leader Amit Malviya, saying, “Rahul Gandhi is bashing India and Indian institutions because they do not support his kind of politics; their ideologies; her personality. Rahul Gandhi has to realize that he has been rejected by the people of this country, and he cannot be angry with them for getting elected. He has to realize that it is not his right to be the Prime Minister of India. He has to understand that people do not see any merit in him as a person or as a politician.”
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the Wayanad MLA of “embarrassing the country” on foreign soil by “seeking foreign interference”.
Accusing the Congress leader of lying, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “BJP wants to emphasize with great pain that Rahul Gandhi in his speeches has tried to embarrass India’s democracy, politics, parliament, political system and judicial system.” Have tried. ,
Gandhi had asked at an event in London, “Why Europe and America, the defenders of democracy, are oblivious to how a large part of democracy in India has been destroyed.” The BJP said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and his predecessor Sonia Gandhi should give an explanation. on the comments.
Union minister Kiren Rijiju also reacted to Gandhi’s statement on ‘silence of opposition leaders in Parliament’. “Be it Rahul Gandhi or others, they keep abusing the government and PM Modi from morning till evening. The one who speaks the most says they are not allowed to speak,” Rijiju said.
The Wayanad MP told British MPs in London on Monday that working microphones in the Lok Sabha were often silenced against the opposition.
During an event hosted by veteran Indian-origin opposition Labor Party MP Virendra Sharma in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons complex, Gandhi shared experiences from the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which he described as an “intense political exercise in mass mobilisation”. described.
In a lighter vein, he used the malfunctioning microphone in the room to speak about what he described as the “oppressive” debate of the opposition in India.
He said, ‘Our mics are not bad, they are working, but still you can’t turn them on. This happened to me many times when I was speaking,” the 52-year-old Wayanad MP told the gathering in response to a question about sharing his experience of being a politician in India with his counterparts in the UK.
“Demonetisation, which was a disastrous financial decision, we were not allowed to discuss. GST was not allowed to be discussed. We were not allowed to discuss Chinese troops entering Indian territory. I remember a Parliament where there were lively discussions, heated debates, arguments and disagreements but we talked. And, clearly this is what we miss in Parliament. We have to use debate to fit into other debates. There is a suffocation that is going on,” he said.
The BJP has accused Gandhi of defaming India on foreign soil while praising China.
Union minister Anurag Thakur on Monday hit out at Gandhi for his remarks and asked the Congress leader not to betray the country.
“Don’t betray India, Rahul Gandhi ji. The objections to India’s foreign policy are proof of your poor understanding of the issue. Nobody would believe the lies you spread about India from foreign soil, Thakur told reporters in New Delhi.
Thakur said Gandhi has resorted to “defaming India” from foreign soil in a conspiracy to hide his failures.
Rahul Gandhi has become a storm of controversies. Be it foreign agencies, foreign channels or foreign soil. He does not miss a single opportunity to defame India.
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