New Delhi: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has stirred another controversy with his remarks against PM Narendra Modi at an event in Germany’s capital Berlin.
Rahul is on a five-day visit to that country and was speaking at the Hertie School in the German capital, when he said that PM Modi’s vision for India would fail.
The BJP was quick to react, with party spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari accusing Gandhi and the Congress of pushing a dangerous narrative of instability, as reported by timesnow.in
“From fighting Indian state, to threatening anarchy, Rahul Gandhi’s Congress with his ideological patron George Soros wants Chaos, Unrest in Indian Democracy. Rahul goes abroad for uniting such Anti India forces,” Bhandari said in a post on X.
“Congress hates Indian Democracy. Congress hates Bharat’s progress. Rahul Gandhi’s Congress wants Anarchy!”, he added.
Rahul was criticised for his anti-India comments on foreign soil by Union minister of state Shobha Karandjale as well.
“Rahul Gandhi is not the leader of opposition but an anti-India leader who goes abroad and speaks against the nation. What does he aim to gain by doing this? He still behaves like a child, not a leader,” she said.
Rahul, in his address, accused the ruling party of eroding democratic checks and balances.
“There is a wholesale capture of our institutional framework. Our intelligence agencies, ED and CBI, have been weaponised. ED and CBI have zero cases against the BJP, and most of the political cases are against the people who oppose them,” the Congress leader said.
“There is an attack on the democratic system. We have to find ways to counter this. We will create a system of opposition resistance that will succeed. We are not fighting the BJP, but their capture of the Indian institutional structure,” he added.
His remarks come days after he claimed that manufacturing in India was declining.
During a visit to the BMW World museum in Munich on December 17, he had said: “Manufacturing is the backbone of strong economies. Sadly, in India, manufacturing is declining. For us to accelerate growth, we need to produce more – build meaningful manufacturing ecosystems, and create high-quality jobs at scale.”
Bhandari called it “fake news” and cited official data to defend India’s growth trajectory. He claimed 495 per cent growth in electronics manufacturing over the last decade, 760 per cent growth in exports, and a 14-fold rise in automobile manufacturing since 1991.
