Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying the National Democratic Alliance never sought help from foreign countries to oppose the Indian government. The statement comes as a jibe on Rahul Gandhi's remark that he made during is trips to the United Kingdom and United States this year where he criticised PM Modi, ruling BJP and claimed that democracy was under attack in the country.
In February this year, during his trip to UK's Cambridge University, also his alma mater, Rahul said, "Indian democracy is under pressure and under attack." "The institutional framework which is required for a democracy… Parliament, free press, the judiciary, just the idea of mobilisation — these are all getting constrained. We are facing an attack on the basic structure of democracy," he had said during his speech.
The Congress leader's statement drew flak from the Bharatiya Janata Party who demanded an apology from the former Wayanad MP and also raised the issue in the following Budget Session of the Parliament.
Again in June, Rahul criticised PM Modi during his six-day, three-city tour to US.
“I think if you sat Modi ji down next to god, Modi ji would start explaining to god how the universe works. And god would get confused that what have I created.”
PM Modi took the jibe at Rahul Gandhi during the meeting of the BJP-ruled National Democratic Alliance in New Delhi, hours after like-minded opposition parties concluded their meeting in Karnataka's Bengaluru.
The NDA meeting was attended by 38 allies including the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiromani Akali Dal (Samyukta), Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction), Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Apna Dal, All Jharkhand Students Union, Hindustan Awam Morcha, Kuki People's Alliance (Manipur), National People's Party, Nationalist Democratic Progressive PartyNeiphiu Rio, Naga People's Front.