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Senior Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) alleged that the authorities discourages visiting overseas dignitaries from gathering the Leader of the Opposition (LoP), calling it a interruption from antiauthoritarian contented and a motion of “insecurity.” His remarks came hours earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day sojourn to India.
“It has been a contented that overseas leaders conscionable the LoP. This happened during Vajpayee ji and Manmohan Singh ji’s time. But now, erstwhile I spell overseas oregon erstwhile dignitaries travel here, the authorities tells them not to conscionable me,” Mr. Gandhi told reporters successful Parliament. Such meetings, helium said, connection visiting leaders “another perspective,” adding, “We besides correspond India.”
Asked wherefore the authorities was doing so, helium said, “It is their insecurity.”
Echoing his views, Congress wide caput Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, “Every ideology has a protocol which should beryllium followed. The authorities wants to seizure everything, soundlessness different voices, and is breaking protocols. This reflects insecurity.”
Congress wide caput (organisation) K.C. Venugopal termed the signifier a “time-tested antiauthoritarian tradition” that enriches India’s planetary engagement. “Those who lone privation to talk their ain Mann ki Baat person nary respect for these traditions,” helium posted connected X.
