New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi`s speech at Cambridge University earlier this week drew Bharatiya Janata Party`s ire because the social gathering has accused the Congress chief of talking “against” India out of the country and depicting a adverse picture of the nation.
“While the whole world is using good words to describe India and encouraging it, its main opposition leader, on foreign soil is claiming that the country has been destroyed and democracy is no longer there while the judiciary and the media are in bad shape,” BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra stated whereas addressing a press convention right here.
Referring to Italy`s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni`s comment on PM Narendra Modi, Patra slammed Gandhi for his remarks at a time when India was internet hosting the G20, with world leaders recognising the management of PM Modi. He additional stated that it’s being stated that if somebody can defuse the Russia-Ukraine battle, it is just PM Modi.
“At 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 India as a place where democracy no longer exists and the judiciary has been compromised,” Patra added.
BJP chief additionally accused Rahul Gandhi of dissuading traders from investing in India at a time when the world is seeing the nation as a “bright spot” and overseas corporations are leaving China to do enterprise right here.
“Today, all the foreign companies from all over the world want to come to India and invest, even they are leaving China and coming to our country. This has happened for the first time in 70 years and Rahul Gandhi went to Britain`s big university and asked them not to come to India. He said there that if the investors will have any issue here in the country, the judiciary will not listen to you because it has been compromised,” Patra hit out on the Wayanad MP.
Coming down closely on Congress’s former president, Patra stated, “Just because you are not a bright kid of your dynastic party doesn`t mean India is not a bright spot.”
Just as a result of ‘Rahul Gandhi’ isn’t a ‘Bright Kid’, that doesn’t imply ‘India’ isn’t a ‘Bright Spot’. pic.twitter.com/2jrimF1Rvl
— Sambit Patra (@sambitswaraj) March 4, 2023
During a lecture `Learning to Listen within the twenty first century` at Cambridge University, Rahul Gandhi alleged that an assault has been unleashed on the fundamental construction of Indian democracy whereas additionally claiming that Israeli spyware and adware Pegasus was getting used to snoop into his cellphone.
Congress chief and ex-advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sam Pitroda shared the YouTube hyperlink of Rahul Gandhi`s handle to MBA college students at Cambridge Judge Business School on the subject of `Learning to Listen within the twenty first Century`, on Twitter.
Rahul claimed that he had been warned by the intelligence officers to be “careful” whereas talking on the cellphone as his calls have been being recorded.
“I myself had Pegasus on my phone. A large number of politicians had Pegasus on their phones. I have been called by intelligence officers who told me, `Please be careful about what you are saying on the phone because we are sort of recording the stuff. So this is the constant pressure that we feel. Cases on the Opposition. I have got a number of criminal liable cases for things that should under no circumstances be criminal liable cases. That`s what we are trying to defend,” the Congress chief stated in his handle.
While commenting on his Pegasus declare, Patra requested, “Why didn`t you give your phone for investigation when Supreme Court`s inquiry committee asked you to do so?”
During his lecture, Gandhi listed 5 key facets of the alleged assault on Indian democracy – seize and management of media and judiciary; surveillance and intimidation; coercion by federal legislation enforcement businesses; assaults on minorities, and Dalits and tribals.
Speaking about India`s democracy, Gandhi stated, “Indian democracy is under attack and is under pressure. I am an Opposition leader in India and we are navigating that space. What is happening is that the institutional framework which is required for a democracy — Parliament, a free press, the judiciary; these are all getting constrained. So, we are facing an attack on the basic structure of Indian democracy.”
