‘Congress is defaming India, playing politics of divide’: BJP’s harsh rebuttal to Rahul’s Cambridge lecture

The BJP on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi over his 'Indian Democracy Under Attack' lecture at Cambridge University, saying the Congress leader was maligning India on the global front and his party was playing divide and rule politics.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur said the Congress is unable to digest its defeat in the assembly elections in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland, the results of which were declared on Thursday. "Rahul Gandhi cries again over foreign soil. He knew beforehand what the election results would be, and this Pegasus is nowhere but in his mind,” he told a press conference.

“Congress is working to divide the country. Rahul Gandhi is unable to digest defeat,” he added.

Earlier in his lecture at Cambridge University, Rahul Gandhi made bold claims against the Modi government when he said that Israel's Pegasus spyware was used to track him. In a presentation titled 'India's Democracy Under Attack', Gandhi claimed that he had been warned by secret officers to be careful while on the phone as his 'calls were being recorded'.

Congress leader Sam Pitroda took to Twitter to share a YouTube link to Gandhi's speech to MBA students at Cambridge Judge Business School on 'Learning to Listen in the 21st Century'.