BJP slams Rahul Gandhi’s ‘sellout to US’ charge, calls allegations baseless and false

BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday launched a counterattack against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the India-US trade deal in the Parliament.

Gandhi alleged that the government has "sold Bharat Mata" through the India-US interim trade deal and that it was a "wholesale surrender" with India's energy security handed over to America and farmers' interests compromised.

At a press conference held soon after Gandhi’s Lok Sabha speech, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi alleged that the LoP had brought down the standards of political discourse and conduct in Parliament. He charged the Congress with persistently making “absurd” and untrue claims against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“Parliament has long been regarded as a symbol of the highest democratic standards. However, today, through the conduct, language and style of the Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, a highly condemnable attempt was made to drag politics and parliamentary decorum to the lowest level,” Trivedi said.

Participating in the debate on the Union Budget, Rahul Gandhi said that had an INDIA bloc government negotiated the trade agreement with the US, it would have told US President Donald Trump that he should treat India as an equal.

"You have sold India. Are you not ashamed of selling India? You have sold our mother, Bharat Mata," he said while referring to the trade agreement.

The LoP said energy security has gone under the India-US trade deal, and the US will decide "whom we buy oil from".

Gandhi said the interests of the farmers have been compromised, and the farmers are facing a "storm" as agricultural products from the US will flood Indian markets.

On Gandhi’s remarks, union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju said that the leader of the Opposition did not make any substantive contribution to the Budget discussion.

“Rahul Gandhi deliberately does this repeatedly after his speech, which normally is full of lies and allegations, he runs away, and he never sits to listen to the reply of the minister. It is very unfortunate that we don't have a very serious nature or a person with a serious character befitting the position of the leader of the opposition,” he said.

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“Our party has taken a stand that we will counter Rahul Gandhi's lies outside, but inside the House, a notice will be issued. We will serve the notice to the Speaker. Rahul Gandhi has promised that he will authenticate, but I know he cannot authenticate because he lied. He lied on the house,” Rijiju said.