New Delhi: Union minister Anurag Thakur hit out Monday at Rahul Gandhi for his remarks seeking intervention from the US and European nations over ‘disappearing’ democracy in India. Anurag Thakur asked the Congress leader not to betray the country.
“Don’t betray India, Rahul Gandhi ji. The objections to India’s foreign policy are an evidence of your scant understanding of the issue. No one will believe the lies you spread about India from foreign soil,” Thakur told reporters here. He described the Congress leader as ‘vivadon ki andhi’ (storm of controversies).
Rahul while speaking at a function in London a couple of days back, had alleged that the structures of Indian democracy were under ‘brutal attack’. He regretted that democratic parts of the world, including the US and Europe, have failed to notice it.
“His (Rahul) party had done it earlier, when it took local issues to the United Nations, and now to ask other countries to intervene in India. They have not yet come out of the thought of slavery,” Thakur, the Information and Broadcasting Minister said.
Thakur said Rahul Gandhi has resorted to ‘maligning India’ from foreign soil as part of a conspiracy to hide his failures.
BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya said, “Rahul Gandhi is not just delusional but devious in a mutilated manner. His ideas are dangerous for India’s sovereignty.”
Thakur said, “Rahul Gandhi has become a storm of controversies. Be it foreign agencies, foreign channels or be it foreign soil. He does not lose a single opportunity to malign India. His language, his thoughts, his style of functioning, everything is suspect. This is not the first time; he has done it time and again. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, he raised questions on India’s vaccines,” Thakur pointed out.
The former Congress president also raised questions on the Armed Forces when the Chinese tried to encroach Indian territory, Thakur said. He alleged that Gandhi, indeed, met officials from China.
“When our soldiers were martyred, he said they were killed by a car bomb. Is this the manner in which Rahul Gandhi thinks about the Armed Forces? Sometimes to malign our soldiers, he says they were slapped. What all he says,” Thakur said.
The senior BJP leader said the Congress can be so weak but India is not. “Why should he ask the US to intervene? I would only say that India’s democracy is strong, people are strong and the Armed Forces too are strong. India has a leadership that is strong and farsighted and world leaders have said they believe in India and they trust (Narendra) Modi,” the minister asserted.
Thakur also said Rahul was out on bail in a corruption case and has ‘lost trust in constitutional bodies’.