Rahul Gandhi, who’s within the United Kingdom, has been going through criticism from the BJP over his numerous statements. The BJP has accused him of maligning India’s picture overseas. The BJP’s criticism got here after Rahul Gandhi claimed that democracy in India is underneath assault. He additionally praised China throughout his lecture at Cambridge University. Talking to reporters at an India Insights occasion organised by the Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA) on Saturday night, Rahul Gandhi once more alleged that the buildings of Indian democracy are underneath “brutal attack” and there’s a full-scale assault on the establishments of the nation.
The Opposition chief, who’s in London as a part of a UK tour, advised reporters right here that there are conversations ongoing inside the Opposition to unite round another imaginative and prescient for the nation and act upon an “undercurrent of anger” over urgent points akin to unemployment, value rise, the focus of wealth and violence in opposition to ladies.
However, Gandhi was given a useful lesson by a veteran journalist throughout the occasion. The journalist, who has now settled within the United Kingdom, advised Rahul Gandhi, “I knew your grandmother Mrs Indira Gandhi….Mrs Gandhi, your grandmother, was like an elder sister to me. She was a wonderful woman. When she came here after being imprisoned by Murarji Desai, in a press conference in London, a journalist asked her, ‘What is your experience in prison in India?’ And she said, ‘I don’t want to talk anything bad about India in this conference.’ Now, you are being constantly attacked in the Indian media for your Cambridge Lecture. I hope that you will at least take some lesson from what Mrs Indira Gandhi said.”
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Earlier, throughout the occasion, Rahul Gandhi expressed remorse that democratic components of the world, together with the US and Europe, have failed to note {that a} “large chunk of democracy has come undone”.
“The BJP wants India to be silent. They want it to be quiet because they want to be able to take what is India’s and give it to their close friends. That’s the idea, to distract the population and then hand over India’s wealth to three, four, five people,” he stated.
Gandhi’s earlier feedback at Cambridge University that Indian democracy is underneath assault and several other politicians, together with himself, are underneath surveillance, invited sharp reactions from the BJP that accused him of maligning the nation’s picture on overseas soil after going through successive electoral setbacks.
“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,” Anurag Thakur, the Information and Broadcasting minister, advised reporters in Delhi on Friday.
Thakur stated Gandhi was conscious of the electoral rout the Congress was going through within the meeting elections and had resorted to levelling allegations from overseas soil.
Gandhi is in London as a part of a week-long go to to the UK for a lecture as visiting fellow on the University of Cambridge and is scheduled to work together with the Indian diaspora on Sunday.
He can be being hosted at an occasion within the House of Commons advanced on behalf of the UK Opposition Labour Party and can tackle the Chatham House think-tank in London on the Russia-Ukraine battle and wider geopolitical points earlier than concluding his go to to Britain. (With PTI inputs)
