INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar hit out at BBC for its documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots and PM Modis alleged function as he
called it a hatchet task and politics by another means
He also slammed Rahul Gandhi for questioning Indias China policy stating it was Modi who had despatched soldiers to the LAC to counter
We are not disputing a documentary or a speech somebody gave in a European city
We are discussing politics which is being conducted seemingly
There is a phrase, war by other methods
This is politics by other means, he told news company ANI
You do a hatchet task and state this is simply a mission for truth which we chose to put out 20 years later on
Do you believe timing is unintentional? Dont know if election season has begun in India, however for sure it has actually begun in London
and New York, he added.He agreed that certain areas in the West are having issues accepting the increase of India under Modi
Do you doubt it? Its like drip, drip, drip on a stone ..
How do you form a very extremist image of India, the federal government, of BJP, of the PM? It has been going on for a years
Lets not have illusions about it, he stated
Today, Indias international standing is clearly very much greater and rather strong
Weve been able to demonstrate to the world that we are a remarkable global power, stated Jaishankar.EAM S Jaishankar hails PM Modis global
perspective for promoting milletsIn a counterclaim to Congress over claims referring to China, he stated, I think they are deliberately
misrepresenting the scenario
The Chinese very first came there in 1958 and the Chinese recorded it in October 1962
Now you are going to blame the Modi government in 2023 for a bridge which the Chinese caught in 1962 and you dont have the honesty to say
that it is where it happened
The minister said nobody needs to buy the narrative that India was being defensive or accommodating on China
If we were being accommodating, who sent the Army to the LAC? Rahul Gandhi did not send them
We have today the largest peacetime deployment in our history on the China border ..
We have increased our facilities spending on the border five times
Now tell me who is the defensive individual? Who is actually informing the truth? included Jaishankar.Noting that he belongs to a family of
bureaucrats and that the political chance as a Union minister came all of a sudden in 2019, Jaishankar stated his daddy Dr K Subrahmanyam
was removed as secretary, defence production, by previous PM Indira Gandhi
In 1980, when Indira Gandhi was re-elected, he was the very first secretary that she removed
And he was the most knowledgeable individual everyone would say on defence, Jaishankar stated, including that his daddy was superseded
throughout the Rajiv Gandhi duration with somebody junior to him becoming the cabinet secretary.
