Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the United States was silent about the developments in India. He made the remark during an...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the United States was silent about the developments in India. He made the remark during an online discussion with Harvard University Professor Nicholas Burns, who is also the former US under secretary of state.
“I don’t hear anything from the US establishment about what’s happening in India,” Gandhi said during the discussion. “If you are saying partnership of democracies, I mean what is your view on what is going on here.”
LIVE: My interaction with Ambassador Nicholas Burns from Harvard Kennedy School. https://t.co/KZUkRnLlDg
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 2, 2021
The US State Department had on Tuesday released the 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The report identified “unlawful and arbitrary killings, arbitrary arrest and detention by government authorities, overly restrictive rules on non-governmental organisations, violence against women and minorities and restrictions on freedom of expression and the press” as some of the concerns in India. On Friday, the Centre dismissed the report, saying that it was clearly an internal exercise of the US.
During the discussion, Gandhi alleged that there was a “wholesale capture” of India’s institutional framework by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, PTI reported. He added that this had changed the paradigm under which Opposition parties functioned after 2014....
