New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday slammed Congress chief Rahul Gandhi saying he’s recurring of criticising the nation and making feedback on home politics at any time when he goes in a foreign country and that taking nationwide politics in a foreign country is within the nationwide curiosity. Addressing a press convention on 9 years of Narendra Modi authorities’s overseas coverage, Jaishankar refuted Gandhi’s allegations about democratic establishments getting weakened within the nation. He additionally expressed confidence that BJP will win the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“Rahul Gandhi is habitual of criticising the country and making comments on our politics whenever he goes out of the country. The world is looking at us and what are they seeing? Elections are held, sometimes one party wins and some other times the other party wins. If there is no democracy in the country, such a change should not come. Results for all elections should be the same…,” Jaishankar mentioned.
The minister mentioned that Rahul Gandhi expects that outdoors assist will work in India.
“If you see, all this narrative (against the government) has been made in India. If this narrative does not work in India or gets less attention in the country, then this narrative is taken outside. He expects that outside support will work in India,” Jaishankar mentioned.
“We have democracy in the country, I will have something, you will have something. You will have some politics while we will have some politics. I have no objection to whatever he does inside the country but I don’t think taking national politics out of the country is in the national interest. I don’t feel it will increase his credibility,” he added.
Addressing the Indian diaspora earlier this week throughout his go to to the United States, Rahul Gandhi had alleged that there may be an assault on the democratic construction of the nation.
“Full-scale attack on our institutions, on our judiciary, on our media and it is your responsibility and our responsibility to defend the idea of India,” he mentioned.
Rahul Gandhi additionally alleged that BJP and RSS leaders don’t discuss of the longer term and discuss “about the past and will always blame somebody else for the past”.
During his go to to South Africa earlier this month, Jaishankar had taken a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over his remarks within the US, saying that he refrains from indulging in politics when he goes overseas and can argue “vigorously” on his return to India.
“I may differ strongly with someone but how I counter it … I would like to go back at home and do it. And watch me when I get back,” he had mentioned whereas interacting with the Indian diaspora throughout his go to to Cape Town to attend the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
