Commenting on Rahul Gandhi s opinion is worthless: Javadekar ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 20:16 IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark on Indian democracy where he compared India with countries like Iraq and Libya. Saddam Hussain and Gaddafi used to have elections. They used to win them. It wasn t like they weren t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote, Gandhi had tweeted on Tuesday.
Speaking to ANI, Javadekar said: Giving a comment on Rahul Gandhi s opinion is worthless. Comparing India s democracy with Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein is an insult to India and its 80 crore voters.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a conversation with Professor Ashutosh Varshney attacked the Centre over the reports claiming declining democracy in India
Former Congress President and MP from Wayanad in Kerala Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched an attack on the Central government over reports claiming decline of democracy in India. He also said Iraq s dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya s Muammar Gaddafi used to win elections as well. He made this remark during a conversation with Professor Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University.
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He claimed that BJP MPs in Parliament confessed to him that they can not have an open discussion
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (March 16) attacked Bharatiya Janata Party by claiming that BJP MPs in Parliament confessed to him that they can not have an open discussion.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was in a conversation with Professor Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University, USA. Rahul Gandhi claimed that BJP MPs in the parliament tell me that they can not have an open discussion. They say they are told what to say.
Lambasting the Centre over reports claiming decline of democracy in India, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Iraq s dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya s Muammar Gaddafi used to win elections as well. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi used to have elections. They used to win them. It wasn t like they weren t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote, Rahul Gandhi said in online interaction with Brown University. He made this comment while reacting to a question of Professor Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University on reports by Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), a Sweden-based institute which downgraded India to an electoral autocracy, citing a decline in democratic freedoms and Freedom House analysis which shifted India s status from a free country to partly-free.
Union minister Prakash Javadekar (File photo)
NEW DELHI: Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark on Indian democracy where he compared India with countries like Iraq and Libya. Saddam Hussain and Gaddafi used to have elections. They used to win them. It wasn t like they weren t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote, Gandhi had tweeted on Tuesday.
Speaking to ANI, Javadekar said, Giving a comment on Rahul Gandhi s opinion is worthless. Comparing India s democracy with Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein is an insult to India and its 80 crore voters.