Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday mentioned Rahul Gandhi ought to cease his “Cambridge cries and London lies” of democracy on decline and face the citizens in India, as an alternative of searching for assist from his “foreign friends”.
Participating within the Lokmat National Conclave right here, Thakur mentioned that Gandhi has been crucial of India on international soil after dropping a collection of elections the place the BJP and its allies emerged victorious, trouncing the Congress.
“No matter how much help he (Gandhi) seeks from foreign friends, foreign newspapers and channels, foreign soil, foreigners can never dominate India. You have to vote here, not in England or America,” the senior BJP chief mentioned.
“Rahul Gandhi should stop Cambridge cries and London lies and come back to Parliament and apologise to Parliament,” he mentioned.
Gandhi’s remarks alleging erosion of democratic values in India have led to a stand-off between the opposition and treasury benches in Parliament for 2 days, with the BJP demanding that the Congress chief ought to apologise.
The Budget Session of Parliament resumed on Monday after a month-long recess.
On Gandhi’s claims that opposition leaders weren’t given enough time to talk in Parliament, Thakur mentioned the previous Congress president’s attendance in Lok Sabha was means under the common attendance of lawmakers.
“Where is Mr Rahul Gandhi when Parliament is in session? If you have a look at the common attendance of MPs, his attendance is means under that. Yet, he leaves no stone unturned to criticise Parliament and parliamentarians,? the minister mentioned.
The senior BJP chief mentioned Gandhi was nonplussed after tasting defeat in three states. “When he was undertaking Yatra, he lost Gujarat. When he was elsewhere, he lost in other states. Now he has gone on a holiday abroad. But, citizens of India have to stay here,” Thakur mentioned.
Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri mentioned Gandhi would quickly be beneath fireplace from his personal occasion.
“We have few comical figures who want to go outside India and seek the interventions of the outside world to have a regime change in India. Some of the statements he has made are atrocious,” Puri mentioned.
“I think the problem is not coming from the BJP and it is coming from his own people instead. Some people are saying that the efforts made for the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ have failed after his remarks. I am quite happy with how he is acting,” Puri, a diplomat-turned-politician, mentioned.
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