Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National spokesperson Sambit Patra. File.
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The BJP sharpened its assault on Rahul Gandhi on March 4, accusing the Congress chief of talking in opposition to India in a international nation and making such allegations concerning the circumstances within the nation which even Pakistan does not dare to do.
While the entire world is utilizing good phrases to describe India, its primary opposition chief is claiming on international soil that the nation has been destroyed and democracy is now not there whereas the judiciary and the media are in a unhealthy form, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra instructed reporters.
He accused Gandhi of dissuading traders from investing in India at a time when the world is seeing the nation as a “bright spot” and international companies are leaving China to do enterprise right here.
“In a big university, he is telling people bad things about India. While even Pakistan no longer dares say these things about India on a global forum, Gandhi is presenting it as a place where democracy is no longer there and the judiciary has been compromised,” he mentioned.
Mr. Patra questioned if Mr. Gandhi was working as an agent on the payroll of an company to deliver down India.
At a lecture at Cambridge University, Mr. Gandhi had alleged that Indian democracy is beneath assault and several other politicians, together with himself, are beneath surveillance.
The former Congress president listed 5 key points of the alleged assault on Indian democracy — seize and management of media and judiciary; surveillance and intimidation; coercion by federal legislation enforcement companies; assaults on minorities, Dalits and tribals; and shutting down of dissent.
Mr. Patra mentioned the Congress chief spoke about minorities being handled as second-class residents and alleged “Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhi family can stoop to any low to destroy the fabric of India.” “Just because you are not a bright kid and not a bright kid of your dynastic party doesn’t mean India is not a bright spot,” he mentioned, hitting again on the Congress chief.
Mr. Patra mentioned Mr. Gandhi or different Congress leaders did not even submit their cell phones for inspection by a probe committee set by the Supreme Court to look into the cost of snooping via the Pegasus malware.
He mentioned an RTI reply had revealed that 1000’s of telephones had been tapped and a whole bunch of emails learn by authorities companies when the UPA was in energy and recalled that former President Pranab Mukherjee, then a Cabinet minister, had suspected that his workplace was bugged on the behest of one other Minister.
The BJP chief mentioned Mr. Gandhi spoke about thrust on concord and nationalism in China, and accused him of seeing India as an “agreement” and not a nation.
He spoke of the function of the Yellow River in constructing Chinese nationalism however might not see the Ganga in India, Mr. Patra mentioned.
Mr. Patra slammed Mr. Gandhi for his remarks at a time when India was internet hosting the G20, with world leaders recognising the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is being mentioned that if somebody can defuse the Russia-Ukraine battle, it’s Modi, he mentioned.
