NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has stated that China continues to occupy the Indian territory as a result of it sees a “weakened India, an India which is internally divided.”
The Congress MP from Kerala’s Waynad made these remarks throughout an interplay with Ambassador Nicholas Burns of Harvard Kennedy School on Friday.
The Congress chief stated, “China is occupying Indian territory as we speak and this is because China sees a “weakened India”, an India which is internally divided”.
“I am absolutely convinced that a strong India with a clear strategy will have no problem in dealing with China,” Rahul stated.
LIVE: My interplay with Ambassador Nicholas Burns from Harvard Kennedy School. https://t.co/KZUkRnLlDg
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 2, 2021
Hitting out on the BJP, Rahul stated the ruling social gathering has made a “wholesale capture” of your entire “institutional framework” of the nation, and this was stopping a “fair political fight”.
“There is a wholesale capture of the institutional framework of this country and absolute financial and media dominance, ” Rahul stated.
“To combat elections pretty, there is want of institutional constructions, a judicial system that protects, a media that is fairly free, additionally monetary parity, and there is want of a complete set of constructions that really enable to function a political social gathering.’’
“We are in a paradigm where the institutions that are supposed to protect us, do not protect us anymore. And the institutions that are supposed to support a fair political fight, don`t do so anymore,” he stated.
Nicholas Burns is the Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard`s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a former US Under Secretary of State.
This was their second such interplay after one throughout the top of the pandemic. On the electoral losses of his social gathering, the Congress chief stated, “Not simply the Congress, the BSP, the SP, the NCP usually are not profitable elections.”
To bolster his allegation, he gave the instance of Assam EVM row, saying, “BJP candidates are running around voting machines in their cars. But there is nothing going on in national media.”
Gandhi additionally stated, “When we were in the government, we had a feedback system which enabled effective governance. That feedback system is not there now. The current regime`s style of governance is centralised… it`s the idea that believes that centralised power understands everything.”
In the start, he stated that the assassination of his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 modified him. He additionally stated that he had at all times been accustomed to an “environment” of public service and had been introduced up with the concept that you can’t tolerate injustice.
