Hyderabad: Congress party took a swipe at Union Minister for External Affairs S Jaishankar saying that he has join "the Sangh brigade - travel light, leave your brains behind, for calling Rahul Gandhi of being habitual at criticising the country whenever he is abraod. The snide remarks were made by Congress media head Pawan Khera.
Khera said he hoped that the Union Minister was able to block the news including Hathras (referring to the Hathras rape), Lakhimpur (referring to the Lakhimpur Kheri incident), farmers' protest, wrestlers' protest and Manipur (the breakdown of law& order), among others from being transmitted across the world.
"I hope Mr Jaishankar was able to block the transmission of Hathras, Lakhimpur, farmers’ protests, wrestlers’ protests, news on Kathua, Unnao, Ankita Bhandari, Manipur, etc across the world. And he is supposed to be educated. Precondition to joining the Sangh brigade - travel light, leave your brains behind," Khera tweeted tagging an ANI video of Jaishankar's press conference on Friday.
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Earlier on Thursday, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh slammed Jaishankar by making a veiled reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as having gone out and spoke about the national politics in stages during his foreign trips and has now installed Jaishankar as a Union Minister. "The man who started the practice of taking national politics outside the country is none other than the man who gave you your ministerial position. You know it but you cannot acknowledge it Dr. Minister," Jairam wrote in twitter.
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On Thursday, Jaishankar said, "Rahul Gandhi is habitual of criticising the country and making comments on our politics whenever he goes out of the country. The world is looking at us and what are they seeing?" Elections are held, sometimes one party wins and some other times the other party wins. If there is no democracy in the country, such a change should not come. Results for all elections should be the same. 2024 ka result toh wahi hoga, hamein pata hai...I have no objection to whatever he does inside the country but I don't think taking national politics out of the country is in the national interest, Jaishankar said.
