Rahul Gandhi had stated that Indian democracy “is beneath stress and beneath assault” (File)
New Delhi:
Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday got here down closely on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his controversial Indian “democracy beneath assault” comment in London.
In a press convention held within the metropolis on Monday, the Union minister stated, “If any particular person goes exterior the nation he has the liberty to talk however together with that freedom comes what I name the necessity to have a way of duty. We’re the world’s oldest democracy however Mr Gandhi goes to UK and says Indian democracy is dealing with an assault on the essential construction.”
The Union minister stated Rahul Gandhi ought to apologise for his assertion. He additionally hit again on the Congress, reminding them that it was beneath the Indira Gandhi regime that civil liberties had been curbed.
The Union minister stated he (Rahul Gandhi) hails China’s Belt and Street Initiative as a visionary step. “Does he know that China’s BRI goes via Pakistan-occupied Kashmir?… His grandmother invoked Article 356, 150 instances to droop and dismiss legitimately elected state governments,” he added.
The acrimony continued to play out exterior the Parliament with leaders from Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) and Congress focusing on one another over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks and the Adani challenge.
Minutes after the proceedings began within the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Monday, each the homes had been adjourned until 2 pm after Opposition MPs raised slogans demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the Adani shares challenge.
On Friday too, the proceedings within the two Homes of Parliament had been disrupted for the fifth day because the ruling BJP and the opposition events sought to vociferously increase their points.
In his remarks at Cambridge College within the UK, Rahul Gandhi had stated that everyone is aware of and it has been within the information lots that Indian democracy “is beneath stress and beneath assault”.
“I’m an Opposition chief in India, we’re navigating that (Opposition) house,” Rahul Gandhi had stated at Cambridge college within the UK. The institutional framework which is required for a democratic Parliament, free press, the judiciary, simply the thought of mobilisation, transferring round all are getting constrained. So, we face an assault on the essential construction of Indian democracy,” he had stated.
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