BJP’s assault on Rahul’s Cambridge remarks stem from both ‘ignorance’ or ‘contrived politics’: Cong 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday hit again on the BJP for criticising Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at Cambridge University, saying the ruling occasion’s statements both stem from ignorance or from “completely contrived politics” each of which don’t have any place in a democracy.

Gandhi’s remarks on the college that Indian democracy is below assault and several other politicians, together with himself, are below surveillance, has triggered a political slugfest with the BJP accusing him of maligning India on overseas soil and the Congress hit again by citing cases of Prime Minister Narendra Modi raking up inner politics overseas.

Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate stated Gandhi is a number one member of India’s politics and as a member of a celebration that was in energy earlier in addition to a number one member of the Opposition, he has persistently stood for and espoused the causes of the widespread man.

Gandhi is a four-time elected MP and when he speaks in Cambridge a couple of world that’s fraught with tensions and what an vital position India can play in that world, he’s truly lauding Indian democracy, Shrinate argued.

“He is being the flag-bearer of the values our nation is built on. When he talks about Mahatma Gandhi and the values of our Constitution and the foundation of our country he is actually bringing India a lot of pride. I don’t understand where it stems from but the BJP’s opposition (to his remarks) is either ignorance or completely contrived politics both of which have no place in a democracy,” she stated.

Shrinate stated the BJP attacking Gandhi on two grounds that he spoke on overseas soil and about Pegasus is “hollow” as a result of Prime Minister Modi has gone forward and spoken “much worse, washed dirty lenin in public, and made baseless allegations against India’s political system, political Opposition when he was travelling overseas to the extent that while in Shanghai, he had said that people in this country curse as why were they born in India”.

Defending Gandhi’s remarks alleging that he and different Opposition leaders have been placed on surveillance, Shrinate stated the Pegasus fact-finding committee informed the court docket in no unsure phrases that the federal government of the day didn’t cooperate with that committee.

She alleged {that a} part of the media as a part of a “coordinated action” “mischievously” quoted him on Pulwama and China.

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Shrinate questioned how anybody can say that Gandhi didn’t “call it (Pulwama) a terror attack”.

“He said showing a picture, ‘This is me putting flowers on the spot where almost 40 soldiers were killed by a car bomb’,” she stated.

When Pulwama occurred Prime Minister Modi saved taking pictures for ‘Man versus Wild’, Shrinate alleged.

The Congress chief additionally attacked the Modi authorities for what she stated was its “love affair” with China, alleging that the prime minister gave a clear chit to China undermining India’s place on the border subject.

In his lecture, Gandhi had alleged that Indian democracy is below assault and several other politicians, together with himself, are below surveillance.

The former Congress president listed 5 key features of the alleged assault on Indian democracy — seize 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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Shrinate’s remarks got here after the BJP sharpened its assault on Gandhi on Saturday, accusing the Congress chief of talking towards India in another country and making such allegations concerning the situations within the nation which even Pakistan doesn’t dare to do.

While the entire world is utilizing good phrases to explain India, its foremost opposition chief is claiming on overseas soil that the nation has been destroyed and democracy is not there whereas the judiciary and the media are in a nasty form, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra informed reporters.

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday hit again on the BJP for criticising Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at Cambridge University, saying the ruling occasion’s statements both stem from ignorance or from “completely contrived politics” each of which don’t have any place in a democracy.

Gandhi’s remarks on the college that Indian democracy is below assault and several other politicians, together with himself, are below surveillance, has triggered a political slugfest with the BJP accusing him of maligning India on overseas soil and the Congress hit again by citing cases of Prime Minister Narendra Modi raking up inner politics overseas.

Addressing a press convention on the AICC headquarters right here, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate stated Gandhi is a number one member of India’s politics and as a member of a celebration that was in energy earlier in addition to a number one member of the Opposition, he has persistently stood for and espoused the causes of the widespread man.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Gandhi is a four-time elected MP and when he speaks in Cambridge a couple of world that’s fraught with tensions and what an vital position India can play in that world, he’s truly lauding Indian democracy, Shrinate argued.

“He is being the flag-bearer of the values our nation is built on. When he talks about Mahatma Gandhi and the values of our Constitution and the foundation of our country he is actually bringing India a lot of pride. I don’t understand where it stems from but the BJP’s opposition (to his remarks) is either ignorance or completely contrived politics both of which have no place in a democracy,” she stated.

Shrinate stated the BJP attacking Gandhi on two grounds that he spoke on overseas soil and about Pegasus is “hollow” as a result of Prime Minister Modi has gone forward and spoken “much worse, washed dirty lenin in public, and made baseless allegations against India’s political system, political Opposition when he was travelling overseas to the extent that while in Shanghai, he had said that people in this country curse as why were they born in India”.

Defending Gandhi’s remarks alleging that he and different Opposition leaders have been placed on surveillance, Shrinate stated the Pegasus fact-finding committee informed the court docket in no unsure phrases that the federal government of the day didn’t cooperate with that committee.

She alleged {that a} part of the media as a part of a “coordinated action” “mischievously” quoted him on Pulwama and China.

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Shrinate questioned how anybody can say that Gandhi didn’t “call it (Pulwama) a terror attack”.

“He said showing a picture, ‘This is me putting flowers on the spot where almost 40 soldiers were killed by a car bomb’,” she stated.

When Pulwama occurred Prime Minister Modi saved taking pictures for ‘Man versus Wild’, Shrinate alleged.

The Congress chief additionally attacked the Modi authorities for what she stated was its “love affair” with China, alleging that the prime minister gave a clear chit to China undermining India’s place on the border subject.

In his lecture, Gandhi had alleged that Indian democracy is below assault and several other politicians, together with himself, are below surveillance.

The former Congress president listed 5 key features of the alleged assault on Indian democracy — seize 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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Shrinate’s remarks got here after the BJP sharpened its assault on Gandhi on Saturday, accusing the Congress chief of talking towards India in another country and making such allegations concerning the situations within the nation which even Pakistan doesn’t dare to do.

While the entire world is utilizing good phrases to explain India, its foremost opposition chief is claiming on overseas soil that the nation has been destroyed and democracy is not there whereas the judiciary and the media are in a nasty form, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra informed reporters.