BJP criticises Rahul Gandhi’s remarks abroad
BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari alleged that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress were seeking to create chaos and unrest in Indian democracy.
“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 wrote on a post on X.
Union minister of state Shobha Karandjale also criticised Rahul Gandhi, claiming that he goes abroad to speak against the nation. She questioned his intent and said he was not behaving like a leader of the opposition. She further remarked that political discourse in Karnataka was focused on leadership issues rather than development.
Earlier, while speaking at an event at the Hertie School in Berlin, Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP of capturing the country’s institutional framework and described it as an attack on the democratic system. He alleged that investigating agencies such as the ED and CBI had been weaponised by the Centre and suggested that businessmen were pressured to support the BJP instead of the Opposition.
Rahul alleged that the Centre has “weaponised” investigating agencies, suggesting a quid pro quo in which businessmen in India financially support the BJP rather than Opposition parties.
“There is a wholesale capture of our instituteonal 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. If you are a businessman and try to support the Congress, you are threatened. BJP uses the institutional framework of India as a tool to build political power. Look at the money the BJP has and the opposition has,” he 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.
India and West handed production capacities to China
Rahul Gandhi also claimed that India and Western countries had handed over large-scale production to China, which he said had weakened job creation in democracies and contributed to political turbulence in India, the United States and Europe. He argued that the inability to generate employment through production was fuelling polarisation and instability in democratic societies.
The Congress leader is on a five-day visit to Germany. His remarks come after he said during a visit to the BMW World museum in Munich on December 17 that manufacturing in India was declining and that stronger manufacturing ecosystems were needed to create high-quality jobs.
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari rejected these claims, calling them fake news and asserting that India had seen significant growth in manufacturing. He cited sharp increases in electronics manufacturing, exports and automobile production over the past decades to counter Rahul Gandhi’s statements.
(With inputs from TOI)