Guwahati: Chief minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on March 3 for his remarks at Cambridge University in which he claimed that Indian democracy was under attack. He claimed that the opposition was under “constant pressure” due to being hit with irrational criminal cases.
Taking to his Twitter handle, the Assam CM wrote, “First foreign agents target us!
Then our own targets us on a foreign land! Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Cambridge was nothing but a brazen attempt to denigrate our country on foreign soil in the guise of targeting Adarniya PM Shri @narendramodi ji.”
“Rahul says Indian democracy is under threat because he can’t freely express himself. FACT: He travelled 4,000 km in his yatra incident-free under the protection provided by Modi Govt. Do we need to remind him how yatras led by BJP leaders were sabotaged when Cong was in power?,” the CM added.
At a lecture at Cambridge University on the subject of “Learning to Listen in the 21st Century,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke on March 1. He claimed when speaking at the university’s Judge Business School, that the opposition was constantly under pressure from irrational criminal charges. Rahul continued by saying that the core components of a democracy—the courts, Parliament and free press—were being curtailed.
The Congress leader further added that leaders of opposition parties were ‘jailed for merely standing and discussing issues in front of the Parliament House’. “That’s happened 3 or 4 times…relatively violently. You get a sense of what is going on,” he said.