Rahul Gandhi is in a recent controversy but once more over his speech at Cambridge University. Rahul not solely claimed that Indian democracy is below assault but in addition heaped reward on China. One of the presentation slides as seen in his speech video shared by the Congress celebration, exhibits him referring to China as a ‘Force of Nature’ and ‘Aspiring Superpower’. The slide additionally mentions the Belt and Road Initiative which passes by means of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and is opposed by the Government of India.Â
Gandhi, who gave a presentation, famous that within the Constitution, India is described as a Union of States and that Union requires negotiation and dialog. He additionally confirmed slides on the display screen of him being confronted by law enforcement officials outdoors Parliament in New Delhi. “It is that negotiation that is coming under attack and threat…You would have also heard about the attack on the minorities and press,” he mentioned, including that defending and defending Indian democracy is extra than simply about India however about defending the “democratic structure and democratic system on the planet”.
“As the Opposition, it is very difficult to communicate with people when you have this type of an assault on the media, on the democratic architecture,” he mentioned, explaining the motivation behind his Bharat Jodo Yatra, a 4,081 km stroll by means of 14 Indian states from September 2022 to January 2023 to attract consideration to “prejudice, unemployment and growing inequality in India”.
Gandhi recalled his pupil days on the college, which he mentioned had given him so much “in terms of knowledge and understanding”.
The second strand of his lecture focussed on the “two divergent perspectives” of the US and China since World War II and the ultimate strand was across the “Imperative for a Global Conversation”, as he knitted the completely different strands collectively in a name for a brand new sort of receptiveness to numerous viewpoints.
During his speech, Rahul Gandhi claimed that Indian democracy is below assault and a number of other politicians, together with himself, are below surveillance, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged throughout a lecture at Cambridge college, drawing sharp reactions from the BJP that accused him of maligning the nation’s picture on overseas soil after dealing with successive electoral setbacks.
Gandhi delivered the lecture ‘Learning to Listen within the twenty first Century’ on the Cambridge Judge Business School on Tuesday night as a Visiting Fellow, a video recording of which was posted on Twitter by Congress chief Sam Pitroda, ex-adviser to former prime minister Manmohan Singh.
The BJP on Friday additionally made mild of Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that he was being snooped upon, saying that the Congress chief was “hallucinating” and makes such claims as he desires to create headlines wherever he goes.
Hitting again on Gandhi, Union Minister Anurag Thakur puzzled what prevented Gandhi and different Congress leaders from submitting their telephones to a Supreme Court-appointed technical committee that probed the Pegasus snooping difficulty.
“We can understand his hatred towards the Prime Minister, but the conspiracy to malign the country on foreign soil with the help of foreign friends raises questions on the agenda of the Congress,” Thakur, the Information and Broadcasting minister, informed reporters in Delhi.
Addressing a press convention, BJP spokesperson Tom Vadakkan mentioned Gandhi was “hallucinating” and makes such claims as he desires to create headlines wherever he goes.
“What we can say for Rahul Gandhi’s hallucinations. If he makes his (Congress) MoU with China public, we will be interested and the people of India will also like to know. Who is interested in his telephone conversations,” he mentioned. (With PTI Inputs)
