External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar has stated that India would not want UN to inform that elections within the nation needs to be free and honest, dismissing a senior UN official’s assertion on the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Jaishankar’s response has come after global body’s Secretary General Stephane Dujarric in a press release stated that they “hope” in India, individuals’s “political and civil rights” had been protected and everybody is ready to vote in a “free & fair” ambiance.
Jaishankar, who was right here to marketing campaign for his ministerial colleague and BJP candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar within the Lok Sabha polls, additionally stated that the UN official made the remark on the Indian elections final week in response to a “very loaded question” throughout a press briefing on the UN.
“I don’t need the United Nations to tell me our elections should be free & fair. I have the people of India. The people of India will ensure that elections are free & fair. So, don’t worry about it,” the minister informed reporters throughout an interplay.
Last week, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric was requested in regards to the “political unrest” in India forward of the upcoming nationwide elections within the wake of the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the freezing of the opposition Congress Party’s financial institution accounts.
“What we very a lot hope that in India, as in any nation that’s having elections, that everybody’s rights are protected, together with political and civil rights, and everybody is ready to vote in an environment that’s free and honest,” Dujarric had stated.
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