Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a dig at Home Minister Amit Shah for his comment that India is strong in protecting its borders.
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‘Everyone knows the reality of the ‘borders,’ but the thought is good to keep one’s heart happy,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted, tweaking a famous Urdu couplet of Mirza Ghalib as well as the Home Minister’s surname.
On Sunday, addressing a digital rally in Bihar, Mr. Shah had said India’s defence policy had gained global acceptance and the world agreed that “after the US and Israel, if there is any other country that is able to protect its borders, it is India.”
Though the Congress leader did not mention any specific border issue, the tweet was clearly about the stand off between India and China on the Ladakh border.
Earlier too, the former Congress chief had asked the government to come clean on the situation in Ladakh.
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At an online press conference, party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said that while the party stands “with the government, with the people of this country, beyond the last mile on India security,” the Modi government had been deliberately ambiguous by not sharing anything with the Opposition parties
“You have treated us as enemies just because we are political adversaries. It is time that you shared with us,” Mr. Singhvi said.