Rahul Gandhi hits back at BJP over ‘defaming’ the country remark

New Delhi, Mar 7: Rahul Gandhi’s address at Cambridge university has irked BJP leaders, who are now trying to counter strike the allegations made against the govt. BJP leaders accused him of ‘defaming’ the country abroad.
As a stern reply to this, Rahul Gandhi said that it is the Prime Minister Narendra who is defaming the country by discrediting the country’s achievements since Independence.

“I recall the Prime Minister going abroad and announcing that nothing has been done in the 60 or 70 years of Independence. I remember him saying there was a lost decade. There is unlimited corruption in India. I remember him saying this abroad. I have never defamed my country. I’ll never do it,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters at an India Insights event organised by the Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA).
“But the fact remains that the person who defames India when he goes abroad is the Prime Minister of India. You have not heard his speech where he said nothing has been done in India since Independence, insulting every Indian parent, grandparent?” he added.

PM Modi was slammed by the Congress in August 2015 for his comment in Dubai that he has “inherited problems of indecision, lethargy from the previous government”.
In May that year, during a visit to South Korea, he had said: “There used to be a point in time when people used to regret being born in India and leaving the country saying it is no good. They wanted to leave for better opportunities. Now, those people are saying they are ready to come back even if their incomes are lower than in other places. The mood has changed”.