Painful when someone goes abroad and maligns India: Dhankhar

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday during an event in Delhi said some people have been using the foreign platform to defame the nation. "It is painful when someone goes abroad and tries to malign rising India. This should be stopped," India's vice president said. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's lecture last month at the UK's Cambridge University stoked a controversy after he spoke about an alleged "threat to democracy" in India and said that several politicians, including him, were under surveillance. Vice President Dhankhar released a postage stamp during the event marking the 200th birth anniversary of noted social reformer Swami Dayanand Saraswati.