'Just because you are not bright kid, doesn’t mean India is not bright spot': BJP hits out at Rahul Gandhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi on Saturday, accusing the Congress leader of speaking against India in a foreign country and making allegations about conditions in the country that even Pakistan dares not.

While the whole world uses good words to describe India, its main opposition leader on foreign soil says the country has been destroyed and democracy is no more, while the judiciary and media are in bad shape, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said the reporters.

He accused Gandhi of discouraging investors from investing in India at a time when the world sees the country as a "bright place" and foreign firms are leaving China to do business there. “He tells people bad things about India in a big university. While even Pakistan no longer dares to say these things about India in the global forum, Gandhi presents it as a place where democracy is no more and where the judiciary has been compromised,” he said. Patra questioned whether Gandhi was working as an agent on the payroll of an agency that was to overthrow India.

In a lecture at Cambridge University, Gandhi claimed that Indian democracy was under attack and several politicians, including himself, were being watched. The former Congress president cited five key aspects of the alleged attack on Indian democracy - the capture and control of the media and judiciary; surveillance and intimidation; enforcement by federal law enforcement agencies; attacks on minorities, Dalits and tribals; and ending dissent.

Patra said the Congress leader spoke of minorities being treated as second-class citizens and alleged that "Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhi family can stoop to the bare minimum to destroy the fabric of India".

"Just because you are not a bright child and you are not a bright child of your dynastic party does not mean that India is not a bright spot," he said, hitting out at the Congress leader. Adding to it he said Gandhi or other Congress leaders did not even submit their mobile phones for inspection to the inquiry committee set up by the Supreme Court to probe the Pegasus malware snooping allegations.

He said the RTI response revealed that thousands of phones were tapped and hundreds of emails were read by government agencies when the UPA was in power, recalling that former President Pranab Mukherjee, then a cabinet minister, suspected that his office was bugged on orders . another minister. The BJP leader said Gandhi spoke of the push for harmony and nationalism in China and accused him of seeing India as a "deal" and not a nation. He talked about the Yellow River's role in building Chinese nationalism but did not see the Ganges in India, Patra said.

Patra criticized Gandhi for his remarks at a time when India was hosting the G20, when world leaders recognized Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. It is said that if anyone can defuse the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is Modi, he said.