New Delhi, Jul 17 (UNI) Continuing his attack on the Narendra Modi government on the India China border standoff, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said PM's constant blunders and indiscretions have fundamentally weakened India and left us vulnerable which is why China took such an aggressive stance against India.
In a video released on social media , the first in the series of video messages by Rahul on current issues, Rahul, looking into the reasons that have prompted China to take such an aggressive stance against India over the past few months, said , “What is it about India’s situation that has made China act in such an aggressive way? What is it about this moment in time that allowed China to take such an aggressive stand against a country like India?
A country is protected by its foreign relationships, its economy, neighbourhood and the feeling people have. Over the past 6 years, India has been disturbed and disrupted in each of these sectors. PM's constant blunders and indiscretions have fundamentally weakened India and left us vulnerable. Today you have a country which is economically in trouble; in trouble as far as foreign policy is concerned; in trouble with its neighbours.
That’s why the Chinese have decided that this is possibly the best time to act and that is why they have acted.'
Attacking the foreign policy of the NDA government, Rahul said ,'Our relationship with the outside world used to be with multiple countries. We had a strategic partnership with America .We had a relationship with Russia. We had a relationship with Europe. And these countries used to help us manoeuvre in the world.
Today our relationship has become transactional. We have a transactional relationship with the United States. We have disturbed our relationship with the Russians. We have a transactional relationship with Europe. Earlier, India could maneuver in geopolitics with the help of these relations but now India doesn't enjoy these partnerships any more."
Accusing the NDA government of destroying India's relations with its neighboring countries, Rahul said, 'Earlier Nepal ,Bhutan and Sri Lanka were friends. Our neighbourhood, other than Pakistan was working with India and saw itself as being partnered with India.
Today Nepal is angry with us. If you go to Nepal and you speak to the Nepali people, they are furious with what has happened. Sri Lankans have given a port to the Chinese. Maldives is disturbed. Bhutan is disturbed. So we have disrupted our foreign partners and disrupted our neighbourhood. '
Holding the NDA government responsible for the current state of the economy, he said, 'our economy is something that India used to go to the rest of the world and boast about. However in the six years of NDA rule, we have seen worst economic growth in 50 years with no end in sight to the economic downturn. Unemployment is highest in 40 - 50 years."
Accusing the government of turning India 's strengths into its weaknesses, Rahul said, ' our strengths have suddenly become our weaknesses. We told the government that look, please realise that we are becoming vulnerable.
All these things are connected. They’re not separate. When you look at a nation you have to look at all these factors and you have to act, taking into account all these factors.
We told them listen and inject money into the economy, Fire the economy immediately.They refused to do it. '
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