"This Is Cowardice": Rahul Gandhi On S Jaishankar's China Remarks

In a scathing assault on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday stated his current feedback on China did now no longer display nationalism however cowardice and that those have been in step with VD Savarkar`s ideology of “bowing earlier than the strong”. Addressing the eighty fifth plenary consultation of the Congress in Raipur, Mr Gandhi additionally claimed that his birthday birthday celebration leaders and people have been “satyagrahis” at the same time as the BJP and RSS humans have been “satta grahis” (energy seekers).

“I need to inform you some thing approximately the government’s thinking. A few days ago, in an interview, a minister stated that China’s financial system is larger than India so how are we able to combat them. When the British dominated over us become their financial system smaller than ours,” Mr Gandhi stated, with out naming Mr Jaishankar. Does this suggest that one would not tackle absolutely everyone who’s more potent and handiest takes on folks that are weaker, he stated.

“This is cowardice. It is (VD) Savarkar’s ideology that if a person is more potent than you, bow earlier than them. India’s minister is declaring that your financial system is larger than us so we can’t rise up to you. Is this nationalism? Is this patriotism?” the previous Congress president stated. “What form of patriotism is that this which you beat a person weaker than you and bow earlier than the strong,” Mr Gandhi stated.

“There is a phrase for it. Mahatma Gandhi used to speak of satyagraha. Satyagraha way do not go away the route of truth. There is a brand new phrase for the humans of the RSS and the BJP. We are satyagrahis, they are ‘satta grahis’. They will do whatever for satta (energy), they could align with absolutely everyone, bow earlier than absolutely everyone for energy. This is their truth,” he stated.

The Congress has slammed Mr Jaishankar for his said feedback. “They are the larger financial system, what I am going to do? I am a smaller financial system. Am I going to type of select out up a combat with a larger financial system? It isn’t always a query of reacting. It is a query of not unusualplace sense. It is in our hobby to stabilise our borders or a situation, it isn’t always out of love, affection or sentiment,” Mr Jaishankar had reportedly stated.