Opposition MP Rahul Gandhi's UK visit remarks spark anger
Responding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's recent critical remarks against the central government on foreign shores, Indian Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda said that the Opposition MP is trying to cover the fact that he has been spurned by the people of India.
"I think Rahul's speech in itself shows that he has nothing to do with the country's self-respect," Minister Munda said.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during an interaction with the Indian diaspora in London on March 5 thanked them for extending their love and support to the Bharat Jodo Yatra from different parts of the world.
"I would like to thank all of them for extending their love and support to the Bharat Jodo Yatra from different parts of the world. Their dedication to the cause of our motherland is an inspiration for me," posted Gandhi on his Facebook page.
This comes after his tirade against the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) government overseas. The BJP has accused Gandhi of maligning India abroad after repeated electoral defeats, after his address at his alma mater Cambridge University.
Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the ruling BJP during an interaction with the Indian diaspora in London, mentioning Minister S. Jaishankar's remarks on China.
"This is there in their ideology and the foreign minister in the country is saying it. You imagine him saying China is stronger than us, we don't fight with them. The British were stronger than us, so we should not have fought with them. How would we have gotten Independence had we followed BJP and RSS principles? At the heart of their ideology is cowardice. That is the lesson for everybody," remarked Rahul.
The statement in question is given by Minister Jaishankar in an interview to a news agency few days back. "Look they (China) are the bigger economy. What am I going to do? As a smaller economy, I am going to pick up a fight with the bigger economy? It's not a question of being reactionary, it's a question of common sense," he said.
(ANI)