Launching a veiled assault on Rahul Gandhi for his controversial ‘democracy under attack’ speech in London, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday mentioned it’s hurtful when individuals attempt to convey down a ‘rising India’ in a rustic overseas. According to information company ANI, Dhankhar was talking at a perform in Delhi to have fun social reformer Swami Dayanand Saraswati’s beginning anniversary.

Dhankhar mentioned, “It is painful when some people among us try to tarnish the image of a rising India on foreign land. This has to be stopped.”

Without explicitly naming Gandhi, Dhankhar added that leaders ought to attempt to make the nation higher as an alternative of condemning it on international land.

“Any person, who has the best interests of the country at heart, will always speak about the strides that India is making and where it should improve. I believe that our leaders should work on addressing the shortcomings or areas where we are lacking instead of criticising the country on foreign soil,” the Vice President mentioned.

He additionally invoked Swami Dayanand’s saying on Indian independence and resistance to colonisation to specific his displeasure with such feedback, which he mentioned had been to spoil India’s international picture.

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Gandhi’s Cambridge University speech had sparked a furore after he mentioned that the opposition was beneath ‘constant pressure’ of being slapped with unreasonable prison instances. He added that the basic components in a democracy – Parliament, free press, judiciary – had been dealing with restrictions.

Describing an image of himself being held by police, the Congress chief mentioned that leaders of opposition events had been ‘jailed for merely standing and discussing issues in front of the Parliament House’. “You have also heard of the attacks on minorities and the press. You get a sense of what is going on,” he mentioned.

The BJP has been demanding an apology from Gandhi for his ‘disparaging’ statements on democracy beneath prime minister Narendra Modi, which led to the washout of the second half of the Budget session of Parliament, because the opposition pressed for a joint parliamentary probe into the allegations by Hindenburg Research towards the Adani group.

(With inputs from ANI)