{"id":47997,"date":"2023-09-08T18:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=47997"},"modified":"2023-09-08T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:44:37","slug":"full-scale-assault-on-democratic-institutions-of-india-says-rahul-gandhi-during-europe-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/full-scale-assault-on-democratic-institutions-of-india-says-rahul-gandhi-during-europe-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Full-scale assault\u2019 on democratic institutions of India, says Rahul Gandhi during Europe tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, September 8 (Press Ki Taquat)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a \u201cfull-scale assault\u201d on the democratic institutions of India and there are concerns in the European Union (EU) quarters over this attempt to \u201cstifle\u201d the country&#8217;s democratic structures, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Interacting with reporters at a media briefing in Brussels, Gandhi, who is on a European tour starting with Belgium, addressed a broad range of topics including the Russia-Ukraine conflict to say that the Opposition agrees with the government&#8217;s current position on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the reaction of the European parliamentarians to some of these issues, he replied: \u201cThey were very concerned and they felt that there is an attempt to stifle the democratic structures of India, for sure. I mean, they were very, very clear with us.\u201d The BJP has previously dubbed Gandhi as the &#8220;present-day Mir Jafar of Indian polity&#8221; who went overseas seeking help from foreign forces to become a &#8216;nawab&#8217; in India.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party had also said that Gandhi had insulted and defamed India with his comments about India overseas, saying, &#8220;People have not given this right to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gandhi said he had \u201cfruitful\u201d conversations with parliamentarians and members of the diaspora at the start of his European tour, which is part of a wider initiative to travel around the world with the Opposition&#8217;s vision and have an open exchange of ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, September 8 (Press Ki Taquat) There is a \u201cfull-scale assault\u201d on the democratic institutions of India and there are concerns in the European Union (EU) quarters over this attempt to \u201cstifle\u201d the country&#8217;s democratic structures, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday. Interacting with reporters at a media briefing in Brussels, Gandhi, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,20,16185],"tags":[1639,26039,26040,19625,23745,26038,26037,26036,1001],"class_list":["post-47997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-india","category-national","tag-rahul-gandhi","tag-rahul-gandhi-farmers-meet","tag-rahul-gandhi-meet-with-farmer","tag-rahul-gandhi-news","tag-rahul-gandhi-viral-video","tag-rahul-gandhi-with-farmers","tag-rahul-gandhi-with-haryana-farmers","tag-rahul-gandhi-women-farmers","tag-sonia-gandhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47998,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997\/revisions\/47998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}