NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday stated that he doesn’t want the United Nations to inform that the elections within the nation needs to be “free & fair”.
Jaishankar, on the town to help BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s Lok Sabha marketing campaign, dismissed the UN official‘s comment on elections in India, stating it got here in response to a “loaded question” throughout a UN press briefing final week.
“I don’t need the United Nations to tell me our elections should be free & fair. I have the people of India. The people of India will ensure that elections are free & fair. So, don’t worry about it,” the minister advised reporters throughout an interplay right here.
Last week, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric was requested concerning the “political unrest” in India forward of the upcoming nationwide elections within the wake of the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the freezing of the opposition Congress Party’s financial institution accounts.
“What we very much hope that in India, as in any country that is having elections, that everyone’s rights are protected, including political and civil rights, and everyone is able to vote in an atmosphere that is free and fair,” Dujarric had stated.
Earlier, Jaishankar additionally requested different nations to chorus from making political statements on India’s inside affairs or else will get a ‘very sturdy reply’ from India.
Responding to a query concerning the current feedback of US and German envoys on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest the Enforcement Directorate, the international minister stated that India had made it very clear that it objected to such statements.
“Somebody asked a person from the UN (about Kejriwal’s arrest), and he gave some reply. But in other cases, I would say very frankly these are old habits, these are bad habits,” Jaishankar stated.
“There is a certain ‘maryada’ (restraint) among countries. We are sovereign countries, we should not be interfering in each other’s internal affairs, we should not be passing comments about each other’s politics,” he added.
The international minister additional stated that sure etiquettes, conventions and practices which have to be adopted in worldwide relations and if any nation feedback in India’s politics, they’ll get a really sturdy reply from the federal government.
“We sincerely urge all the countries in the world that by all means you have your views about the world, but no country has the right to comment on another country’s politics especially in situations like this,” Jaishankar stated.