Congress has been searching for overseas intervention to realize energy for a very long time: Here is a timeline

The Congress occasion is desperately searching for sympathy and assist from all world wide after Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha. They are claiming that the Narendra Modi-led Central authorities is ‘persecuting’ the Congress scion. The controversial Congress chief Digvijay Singh’s most up-to-date tweet, wherein he expressed gratitude to the German overseas ministry for “taking note” of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification, has put the occasion in a troublesome spot because it has already come underneath hearth for its pleas searching for overseas intervention in India’s political issues.

On Thursday, March 30, Digvijay Singh thanked the German overseas ministry and Richard Walker, Chief International Editor of Deutsche Welle and wrote, “Thank you Germany Foreign Affairs Ministry and Richard Walker for taking note of how the Democracy is being compromised in India through the persecution of Rahul Gandhi.”

Singh wrote this quoting a tweet by Richard Walker wherein the DW journalist had posted a video of a German overseas ministry spokesperson talking on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification.

Thank you Germany Foreign Affairs Ministry and Richard Walker @rbsw for being attentive to how the Democracy is being compromised in India by way of persecution of @RahulGandhi https://t.co/CNy6fPkBi3

— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) March 30, 2023

Reacting to this tweet, senior Congress chief and an in depth aide of Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter on Friday to precise his ‘thoughts’ on Singh’s tweet. Sibal’s tweet asserting that the Congress occasion doesn’t want crutches or overseas endorsement to stroll forward appeared extra like a injury management transfer than a mere expression of ideas because the Bhartiya Janata Party has slammed Singh over the mentioned tweet. 

“Digvijaya Singh: Thanked Berlin for “taking note of how democracy is being compromised in India.” My thought: We don’t want crutches to stroll forward. We don’t want endorsements from overseas. Our combat is our personal and in that we’re collectively,” Sibal tweeted.

Digvijaya Singh :
Thanked Berlin for ” being attentive to how democracy is being compromised in India”

My thought :
We don’t want crutches to stroll forward
We don’t want endorsements from overseas

Our combat is our personal and in that we’re collectively

— Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) March 31, 2023

While Sibal is claiming that his occasion doesn’t want overseas endorsements, the actions of the Congress occasion recommend in any other case.

Congress flaunts overseas media protection of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification 

Recently, the Congress occasion was flaunting the overseas media protection of Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 legal defamation case over his derogatory feedback towards the folks with the ‘Modi’ surname and the automated disqualification as a Member of Parliament that adopted underneath part 8(3) of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951. 

On March 25, Congress chief Supriya Shrinate shared the protection of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification by the overseas media retailers Guardian Australia, Spanish Telemundo, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine, Saudi Arabia’s Ashraq News, France’s RFI, CNN Brasil and tried to insinuate that the Congress scion’s disqualification was one way or the other achieved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

“Truth has an odd quality. The more you suppress it, the even more powerfully it comes out. Well done Mr Modi,” Shrinate tweeted in Hindi.

सच की एक ख़ासियत है

जितना दबाओगे

उतनी ताक़त से बाहर आएगा

Well achieved Mr Modi. pic.twitter.com/RQTOQf1j92

— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 25, 2023

On related traces, senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor additionally claimed that ‘they’ tried to suppress a voice, however now each nook of the world hears the ‘voice of India’.

They tried to silence a voice. Now each nook of the world hears the voice of India. pic.twitter.com/HQ71nLwxW0

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) March 25, 2023
Rahul Gandhi sought overseas intervention to ‘restore’ democracy in India

Notably, Rahul Gandhi had invited extreme backlash after he sought overseas intervention in India’s political issues throughout his controversial London go to earlier this month. Rahul Gandhi had urged the US and Europe to intervene to “restore” democracy in India. Rahul claimed that Europe and the US should not doing sufficient to revive democracy in India as they’re getting commerce and cash from the nation.

In a protracted speech made at Cambridge earlier this month, Rahul Gandhi resorted to blatant lies, misinformation and baseless claims to make a case for himself because the ‘ideal leader’ of India. Completely ignoring India’s electoral and democratic course of, the Congress prince was seen desperately pleading with Western powers to intervene in India’s politics for a regime change operation towards Modi. The speech is defined right here.

However, throughout an interview with India Today, Indian Overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda bluntly denied Gandhi sought western international locations’ intervention in India’s issues. Pitroda mentioned, “This is our challenge, and we will deal with it”, is what Gandhi had mentioned. When Sardesai requested about his remark that international locations just like the US and the UK should not doing something in regards to the state of affairs of democracy in India, Pitroda claimed that India’s democracy is not only a matter of India however of the entire world. “It is not about Hindustan but Manavta”, he added.

Although Congress leaders like Supriya Shrinate did attempt to defend the statements made by Rahul Gandhi over tv debates and in her tweets, saying that Rahul Gandhi had known as the Indian democracy a ‘global public good’. However, the insinuation that the Indian democracy is one way or the other on the breaking point merely as a result of issues should not going the Congress manner is indefensible. 

प्रिय @rsprasad जी,

हिन्दी & अंग्रेज़ी दोनों समझ कर भी झूठ क्यों बोले?

राहुल जी ने कहा ‘भारत का कमज़ोर होता लोकतंत्र हमारी समस्या है, समाधान हम ख़ुद निकालेंगे.

हमारे लोकतंत्र में 140 करोड़ लोग हैं, यहाँ लोकतंत्र का भविष्य पूरी दुनिया के लोकतांत्रिक भविष्य को प्रभावित करेगा’ pic.twitter.com/trx2HC1OOP

— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 7, 2023

While right now, underneath the political stress forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections the Congress occasion is defending-denying Rahul Gandhi’s determined plea searching for overseas intervention, the occasion has a protracted historical past of searching for overseas intervention for its personal features. Here is a timeline of Congress’s strikes searching for overseas assist.

Congress opened its workplace in Turkey

India and Turkey’s relationships have through the years been strained owing to Turkey’s pro-Pakistan stand on Kashmir. Despite this, the Congress opened its abroad workplace in Turkey in 2019. This transfer by the Congress occasion geared toward as what its press launch reportedly acknowledged was “to shine bilateral relations between India and Turkey’. This got here simply days after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whereas on the United Nations General Assembly had mirrored Pakistan’s traces on the Kashmir problem.

Rahul Gandhi secretly met the Chinese Ambassador through the Doklam standoff

Rahul Gandhi and Luo Zhaohui, the Chinese ambassador to India, met on July eighth, 2017, however their dialog was personal. The Congress occasion referred to a number of media experiences of the assembly as faux information. Yet, the Chinese embassy afterwards posted a press release on its web site confirming the assembly. Eventually, Rahul Gandhi got here to his personal rescue as he confirmed his assembly with the Chinese Ambassador.

It is my job to learn on crucial points. I met the Chinese Ambassador, Ex-NSA, Congress leaders from NE & the Bhutanese Ambassador

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 10, 2017

It is pertinent to say right here that the assembly between Rahul Gandhi and the Chinese Ambassador transpired when each international locations had been engaged within the Doklam Standoff, which lasted until August 2017.

When Rahul Gandhi admitted that he had a secret assembly with Chinese ministers in 2018

In September 2018, the Gandhi scion visited Kailash Mansarovar and a yr later admitted to having secretly met the Chinese ministers throughout his go to. The phrase secretly is used right here as there have been no media experiences about his assembly with the Chinese. 

On a query concerning considerations of automation in job creation, Rahul Gandhi whereas talking at a gathering in Odisha mentioned that a few Chinese ministers informed him throughout his Kailash go to that China is going through no downside in job creation as a consequence of automation. He mentioned “how can China, in a world which is automated, is producing 50,000 new jobs in every 24 hours? Why? Why is it that automation is a problem in Europe, and automation is a problem in India, but automation does not seem to bother the Chinese? When I had gone to Kailash, I met a couple of their ministers, and they said no job creation is not a problem in China at all. We have plenty of jobs.”

‘Ladakh is to China what Ukraine is to Russia’: When Rahul Gandhi signaled his want for overseas intervention 

In May 2022, Rahul Gandhi at a Congress Party occasion within the United Kingdom had signalled his want for overseas intervention throughout his controversial tackle. 

Rahul Gandhi remarked that Ladakh is to China what Ukraine is to Russia in response to a query about India’s function within the Russia-Ukraine battle. The Congress chief argued that it was necessary to grasp the “parallels” between the disaster in Ukraine and the present state of affairs in India. Rahul Gandhi known as on the western nations to strategy India’s inner affairs equally to how they deal with the Russian-Ukrainian battle, whereas not directly requesting that the US become involved in India’s political affairs.

In the identical tackle, Gandhi additionally lamented over the truth that the Indian diplomats not adhere to the diktats of the west. “I was talking to some bureaucrats from Europe, and they said that the Indian Foreign Service has completely changed, they do not listen to anything. They are arrogant. Now they are telling us what orders they are getting, there is no conversation,” Rahul Gandhi mentioned.

When Rahul Gandhi met Jeremy Corbyn, the British politician identified for his anti-India, anti-semitic, terror-sympathizing and pro-Pakistan views

During his UK go to in May 2022, Rahul Gandhi met Jeremy Corbyn, the anti-India and pro-Pakistan chief, who previously led the Labour Party in Britain. It is notable that Jeremy Corbyn has all the time backed Kashmiri separatists and echoed Pakistan’s stance on the difficulty. When he was the chief of the Labour Party, his occasion’s MPs repeatedly tried to become involved within the Kashmir problem by reiterating Pakistan’s political rhetoric. During Corbyn’s management, the Labour Party even handed a movement calling for worldwide involvement in Kashmir and an UN-led plebiscite.

When Rahul Gandhi sought US intervention in India’s inner issues

In April 2021, Rahul Gandhi throughout a web based interplay with Ambassador Nicholas Burns of the Harvard Kennedy School requested for American interference in India. “I don’t hear anything from the US establishment about what is happening in India. If you are saying partnership in democracy is, I mean, what’s your view on what is happening here?” Rahul Gandhi mentioned. He additionally asserted that America one way or the other must defend the ‘idea of freedom’.

Rajiv Gandhi Foundation obtained funds from China

In 2020, particulars in regards to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation’s (RGF) financial operations emerged. Back then, OpIndia had extensively reported on how the Chinese authorities donated funds to RGF in 2006 and subsequent years. The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Congress occasion inked a contract in Beijing throughout UPA1 in 2008 for the alternate of high-level data and cooperation between them. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) additionally offered the 2 events with the “opportunity to consult each other on important bilateral, regional and international developments”. It is value noting that Sonia Gandhi is the Chairperson of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and the trustees have been Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra since 2005. In October 2022, the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence of RGF was revoked by the Centre for alleged violation of the overseas funding regulation.

While these are modern examples, again in 2010 it was reported that Rahul Gandhi had informed US ambassador Timothy Roemer that radicalized Hindu teams are a larger risk than the assist of some Indian Muslims to Islamist terrorist outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba. According to the whistleblowing web site Wikileaks, Rahul Gandhi knowledgeable the then US ambassador to India Timothy Roemer that “there was evidence of some support for Islamist terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba among certain elements in India’s indigenous Muslim community; the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalized Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community.”