How Rahul Gandhi defied decorum by taking potshots against Narendra Modi in Cambridge speech
The recent speeches of Rahul Gandhi abroad, at Cambridge University, and within the precincts of the British Parliament, have, predictably, caused considerable controversy. Therefore, when Rahul Gandhi says to a foreign audience that Narendra Modi is ‘destroying the architecture of India’, and ‘blowing the country to smithereens’, he is bidding goodbye to all nuance. On other issues, Rahul came across as a deliberative political leader, although I did find his analysis of China as representing ‘harmony’ and America as representing ‘openness and individual liberty’, without any reference to the absence of democracy in China, and the continued discrimination within America against the coloured, a bit simplistic. Finally, Rahul’s repeated use of the phrase ‘conversation’, ‘negotiation’ and the importance of democracy, may ring a little hollow in a party, where without holding any democratically elected post, he is the de facto supremo, who appears to be hostile to any dissent or criticism. The attack on the so-called G-23 in the Congress by Rahul Gandhi at the Congress Working Committee meeting was certainly not the best example of ‘conversation’ or ‘negotiation’ or inner party democracy.
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