Mysuru: External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks on China.
Responding to the criticisms leveled by Rahul Gandhi over the government’s handling of relations with China, EAM S Jaishankar said “I would have offered to take classes on China from Rahul Gandhi but I discovered he was taking classes on China from the Chinese ambassador,”.
He referred to the recent meeting of Rahul Gandhi and the Chinese Ambassador to India.
EAM said, “I know everything in politics is political. I accept that. But I think on certain issues, we have a collective responsibility to at least behave in a way that we do not weaken our (India’s) collective position abroad to do what we have seen in the last three years in China,”.
He further claimed that “often very misleading narratives are put in.”
This is not the first time that Jaishankar hit out at Rahul Gandhi for his comments relating to China. Earlier in March, Jaishankar had criticized him while speaking at the India Today Conclave in the national capital.
Speaking about his interaction with Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Goa, he said, “If I have a good guest, I am a good host…”
(With Agency Inputs)
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