Rahul Gandhi launched the fourth in a series of videos on his opinion on the border standoff with China
New Delhi:
Rahul Gandhi said today that he would continue to point out what he describes as “the truth” about China’s encroachment on Indian territory, even if it costs him his political career.
“I don’t care if I don’t have a political career after this, but I will speak the truth about Indian territory,” Gandhi said.
The ruling BJP was quick to retort that Mr Gandhi’s offer was empty because his career had already surged.
“Your political career ended soon after it took off. The people of this country don’t see that it has a leader. It ended in 2019, and now you are determined to kill the future of the Congress party, “said the deputy of the BJP and national. GVL spokesman Narasimha Rao said.
In a one-minute-and-20-second video posted to social media today, Gandhi launched the fourth in a series of video testimonials about his views on the border standoff with China. He alleged that the government was covering up facts and that China’s incursion into Indian lands was irrefutable.
A growing group within its own party, Congress, finds its approach questionable. “He is not speaking to us and we have no idea who is advising him,” said a member of this critical group who will not publicly attack Mr Gandhi because of their party’s unwavering loyalty to the notion of Gandhi as undisputed holder. of his fortune.
At the party’s press conference today, Mr Chidambaram, a former finance minister, was asked if he had been consulted on Mr Gandhi’s presentation of his foreign policy perspective. Mr Chidambaram responded revealingly that he had not been Minister of Defense or Foreign Affairs. According to him, Mr. Gandhi sometimes seeks his opinion “but not for these videos”.
In recent weeks, two major political crises, involving first Jyotiraditya Scindia and then Sachin Pilot, have sparked a low-volume internal debate over whether the Congressional First Family is allowing disasters that could have been blocked, in part. because Mr. Gandhi and his mother, Sonia, are advised by different teams who shoot in opposite directions. Mr Scindia and Mr Pilot, seen as leaders in the party’s slender number of capable young leaders, have revolted against what they describe as an old guard league against them to ensure that he does not there is no transfer of power to the next generation.
Mr. Scindia cost Congress his government in Madhya Pradesh. Mr. Pilot seems quite determined to attempt the same in Rajasthan. Within Congress, it has been questioned whether Mr Gandhi, who resigned as party chairman after last year’s general election, is allowed to exercise power without responsibility – although his mother is now leader of the party, it is largely his opinion that seems to count and drive the strategy.
The same section of Closet Critics claims Ms Gandhi goes to much more effort to get a detailed brief before taking a public position – as an illustration, they cite her questioning of the prime minister at an all-parties meeting which he summoned in June to discuss the border’s seething hostility with China.
“She consults us and takes a snapshot. Look at the pointed questions she posed to the prime minister at the multi-stakeholder meeting,” one leader said. When asked why his son is following a different pattern, he replied, “He (Rahul Gandhi) probably thinks that we are useless people and that his advisers know best.
This constant friction between veteran members of Congress, who see themselves as Team Sonia, and its youth obstructs much of the internal life of the party. The Sonia team believes that Gandhi’s comments on India’s relations with China lack depth and isolate Congress as an entity that needlessly attacks Prime Minister Narendra Modi over a national security issue. They also point out that Gandhi has attacked the Prime Minister on a number of occasions over policies that were actually introduced when Congress was in power.
In June, the prime minister said in a televised speech that no foreigners had crossed the Indian border. His statement was based on a deadly clash in June, the worst in five decades, which saw 20 soldiers killed and nearly 75 others injured in a confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh. Since then, the two countries have been working on disengagement at a series of hot spots. Indian military officials as well as Defense Minister Rajnath Singh have made it clear that the process is not easy, with China waiving certain terms and conditions.
