Foreign Minister S Jaishankar slams Rahul Gandhi for his "Lack of knowledge and wisdom on China"

S Jaishankar: Today, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar responded to Rahul Gandhi's recent remark suggesting that he lacks knowledge on foreign policy and needs to learn more. The Foreign Minister also countered the Congress leader's recurring criticism of the government's policy and outlook towards China, describing it as 'defensive.'

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S Jaishankar takes dig at Rahul Gandhi

In a media statement, S Jaishankar said, "If I would have to sum up this China thing, please do not buy this narrative that somewhere the government is on the defensive...somewhere we are being accommodative. I ask people if we were being accommodative who sent the Indian Army to the LAC (Line of Actual Control). Rahul Gandhi did not send them. Narendra Modi sent them."

He continued further by saying "We have today the largest peacetime deployment in our history on the China border. We are keeping troops there at a huge cost with great effort. We have increased our infrastructure spending on the border five times in this government. Now tell me who is the defensive and accommodative person? Who is actually telling the truth? Who is depicting things accurately? Who is playing footsie with history?"

Responding to Rahul Gandhi's comment on foreign policy, the Foreign Minister took a dig at the Congress MP and stated that he was open to hearing him out if he possesses "superior knowledge and wisdom" on China.

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Budget increased five times: S Jaishankar

He stated, "I think he said this somewhere in a public meeting. It is probably in the context of China. All I can say in my defence is I have been the longest-serving ambassador in China. I have been dealing with a lot of these border issues for a very long time. I am not suggesting that I am necessarily the most knowledgeable person, but I would have a fairly good self-opinion of my understanding of what is up there. If he has superior knowledge and wisdom on China, I am always willing to listen. As I said, for me life is a learning process. If that is a possibility, I have never closed my mind to anything however improbable that may be."

When asked about the criticism from Congress and other opposition parties regarding Chinese construction activities in the Pangong Lake region of Ladakh, the Foreign Minister highlighted that the area has been illegally occupied by China since the 1962 war. He also told that the government has increased the budget five-fold to enhance border infrastructure.

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