Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey on Monday, July 27, launched a scathing attack on Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, alleging a lack of transparency regarding his foreign visits and calling for investigation into the matter.
Dubey’s comments came as several Opposition MPs staged a protest at Makar Dwar of Parliament on Monday over police action during the students’ protest.
The Opposition leaders were seen holding banners demanding accountability from Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the alleged police action against students protesting against the alleged NEET paper leak and other examination-related irregularities.
On being asked about the protest, Dubey stated that it was Rahul Gandhi who needs to answer questions. He asserted that there was no transparency regarding the Congress leader’s overseas visits over the years.
“It is Rahul Gandhi who should be held accountable. No one knows about all the foreign trips he has undertaken from 2004 to 2026. He goes abroad, whom he meets, what he does, what kind of movement he talks about, and what funding he talks about. How were Soros’ people present on his trip? What happened between Congress and China in 2008? No one knows it to date. This is not transparency,” IANS quoted Dubey as saying.
He added, “He is the Leader of Opposition, and when the LoP embarks on a foreign visit, he has to act like a de facto Prime Minister; he has to tell people about India’s policies. However, whenever Rahul Gandhi has visited foreign nations, he has always spoken against India, the government and the Constitution”.
Dubey further stated that efforts are being made to seek Rahul Gandhi’s removal as the Leader of Opposition, besides demanding a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to examine his foreign visits.
“We will plan on proposing how to remove Rahul Gandhi from the post of LoP. I would urge the government to form an SIT to investigate his (Rahul Gandhi’s) foreign visits. I would surely make efforts for this,” he added.
The BJP leader said Congress and Rahul Gandhi were staging a protest to hide what he described as “involvement in activities detrimental to the country’s interests,” according to IANS report.
“All of them are involved in the conspiracy to break the country and the kind of incidents that are coming to light, the people who have funded, the people who have given money, the kind of things that have happened and in which Congress has the biggest contribution, Rahul Gandhi is a puppet sold in the hands of foreign powers. He is not Rahul Gandhi, he is a puppet of foreign powers,” he stated.