voicing his opinion on the prime minister Narendra Modi In England, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Said that “Indian democracy is under attack” and BJP leaders are “blowing the country into pieces”.
And this is not Gandhi’s first sarcasm during the Prime Minister’s foreign visits. Be it Germany or Britain or Sweden, Gandhi has been vocal in his attacks against the BJP-led government, and what usually follows is a seething cauldron of reactions from members of the saffron party at home.
Let us take a look at the instances in which Gandhi chose to criticize Modi abroad.
Cambridge, March 2023
Gandhi lectures on ‘Learning to Listen in the 21st Century’ at Cambridge Judge Business School on Tuesday evenings as Visiting Fellow.
Referring to the controversial Pegasus snooping issue, Gandhi alleged that Israeli spyware was installed on the phones of a large number of politicians, including his own.
“I myself, had Pegasus on my phone. A large number of politicians have Pegasus on their phones. I have been called by intelligence officers who say please be careful what you say on the phone because we are recording it. So, it is a constant pressure that we feel,” the 52-year-old former Congress chief claimed.
Cambridge, May 2022
Launched by Rahul Gandhi during the Ideas for India conference at Cambridge University in UK a series of attacks Hits out at the BJP and PM Modi and the government for promoting “private sector monopoly” in the country.
“What emerged from the independence movement was a compromise between these states and identities and religion. So, India emerged from the bottom up and all these states UP, Maharashtra, Assam and Tamil Nadu came together and negotiated peace. From this federation of states What needed to be negotiated, the means of that conversation emerged – the Constitution, the idea that one person would have one vote, the electoral system, IITs and IIMs,” Rahul Gandhi said during the interaction.
Germany, 2018
Many more controversial comments followed, such as when he said violence against women was on the rise in India or when Gandhi said at a German university in 2018 that China was expanding and flourishing, unlike India.
During his visit to Germany in 2018, Gandhi attacked Modi for being a “traitor”.
Singapore, 2018
In 2018, during a visit to Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Rahul Gandhi stirred another controversy and was attacked by the BJP for undermining his country’s reputation abroad.
The Congress leader said: “There is a special kind of politics that is happening not only in India but in many places – of dividing people, using their anger to win elections and that is what is happening in India.” He further said that unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he is loved even by those who dislike him.
London, August 2018
In August 2018, Rahul Gandhi compared the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to the terrorist organization Muslim Brotherhood.
“The idea of the RSS is similar to the idea of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab world,” he told the London-based think tank International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Malaysia, 2018
Gandhi again attacked PM Modi over his sudden demonetisation decision during an interaction with the Indian diaspora in Malaysia.
“If I were the Prime Minister and someone had given me the file on demonetisation, I would have thrown it in the dustbin. That’s how I would have rolled it out,” Gandhi said.
Berkeley, 2017
In Berkeley in 2017, Rahul Gandhi said that Dalits and Muslims were being shot in India. “This is new in India, it damages the idea of India,” he said.
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