New Delhi: Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday night gave a lecture on ‘Learning to Listen in the twenty first Century’ at United Kingdom’s Cambridge University. “Indian democracy is under attack and several politicians, including himself, are under surveillance,” stated Gandhi throughout his handle. His assertion drew sharp reactions from the BJP which accused him of maligning the nation’s picture on overseas soil after going through successive electoral setbacks. The Wayanad MP is a visiting fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School. Gandhi is on per week-lengthy tour of the UK and is scheduled to carry some closed-door periods on Big Data and Democracy and India-China relations at Cambridge University.
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Rampant intimidation of media, judiciary and opposition in India makes communication with individuals powerful. I’ve been warned by intelligence officers about telephone conversations, I too had Pegasus on my telephone.
:Sh. @RahulGandhi at Cambridge
Full video right here: https://t.co/WnhH6QMVTr pic.twitter.com/e4sF5ra9Ui
— Congress (@INCIndia) March 3, 2023
Here are the ten factors from Rahul’s handle:
Gandhi referred to the controversial Pegasus snooping challenge and alleged that the Israeli adware was put in on the telephones of numerous politicians, together with him.
The former Congress president listed 5 key features of the alleged assault on Indian democracy –Capture and management of media and judiciary; surveillance and intimidation; coercion by federal regulation enforcement companies; assaults on minorities, Dalits and tribals; and shutting down of dissent.
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The 52-12 months-outdated former Congress chief stated that the institutional framework which is required for a democracy: Parliament, a free press, the judiciary and simply the concept of mobilisation, these are all getting constrained.Â
Rahul Gandhi, who gave a presentation, famous that in 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 exterior 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 stated, 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”.
“I’ve received quite a few felony liable instances for issues that ought to on no account be felony liable instances, however that is the story and that is what we are attempting to defend.
“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 stated, explaining the motivation behind his Bharat Jodo Yatra ? a 4,081 km stroll by way 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 stated had given him rather a lot “in phrases of data 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 final strand was around the “Imperative for a Global Conversation”, as he knitted the totally different strands collectively in a name for a brand new sort of receptiveness to numerous viewpoints.
Gandhi is on per week-lengthy tour of the UK and is scheduled to carry some closed-door periods on Big Data and Democracy and India-China relations at Cambridge University. Later in the week, he’ll work together with representatives of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) UK chapter and likewise handle an “Indian Diaspora Conference” deliberate over the weekend in London.
