S Jaishankar slams Rahul Gandhi for criticising MEA officials for disagreeing with Europeans
Op IndiaForeign minister S Jaishankar has strongly responded to the comments by Rahul Gandhi in London against the Indian government. During his interaction at the event, Rahul Gandhi had said that the several European bureaucrats have told him that Indian foreign service has changed, and they have become arrogant. Now they are telling us what orders they are getting, there is no conversation.” Saying that what Indian foreign service officials are doing is wrong, Rahul Gandhi said, “You can’t do that.” Responding to this statement, union foreign minister S Jaishankar, who is a former Indian foreign service bureaucrat, said that it is not arrogance but confidence that the Indian officials are showing under the Modi government. And as India has not relented keeping own national interest in mind, the western governments are not happy with the Indian government, and it is clear that some of them told Rahul Gandhi that Indian officials have become arrogant. Everyone knows why the Europeans are angry with Indian officials for not toing there line, but still Rahul Gandhi said that what the Indian officials are doing is incorrect and they can’t do this.
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