“Rahul Gandhi is Present-Day Mir Jafar”, Sambit Patra’s Attack Over UK Remarks

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 21st March. Sambit Patra, national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), slammed Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, comparing him to the modern-day Mir Jafar of Indian politics and demanding that he apologise for his remarks in the United Kingdom.

“Rahul Gandhi will have to apologize in Parliament. He always defames the nation. He is the present-day Mir Jafar of Indian Polity,” said BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra at a press conference.

“He insulted the country and ask the foreign power to intervene in the country. This is a consistent ‘conspiracy’ of Congress and Rahul Gandhi. His participation is least in Parliament and he says that no one allows him to speak,” added Patra.

Patra went on to refer to Rahul Gandhi as Mir Jafar, “Mir Zafar did the same thing, he gave 24 Parganas to get help from East India Company and now Rahul is doing the same kind of politics.”

“He is asking for help from foreign countries to become ‘Sahzada’ in India,” Patra added.

Patra emphasised Rahul Gandhi’s participation in parliamentary debate, saying, “Debate is the soul of democracy but Rahul Gandhi had only participated only six times since 2019. He is not participating in the debate.”

Patra went on to criticise Rahul Gandhi for saying, “Unfortunately, I’m an MP, and said, “”Rahul Gandhi doesn’t know what to say. He speaks only with the help of Jairam Ramesh. He himself said that ‘unfortunately I am an MP”.

Previously, during a recent conversation at Chatham House in London, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the microphones of opposition leaders in Parliament are frequently silenced. He levelled several allegations against the BJP-led government at the Centre.

He even claimed that Europe and the United States are not doing enough to restore democracy in India because they benefit from trade and investment from the country.

The Congress leader also alleged that various institutions in the country were under threat.”It shocked me how successful they have been at capturing the different institutions of our country. Press, Judiciary, Parliament, and Election Commission are all under threat and are controlled in one way or the other,” Rahul Gandhi said.

He also called the RSS a “fundamentalist” and “fascist” organisation, claiming that it controls nearly all of India’s institutions.