".....watch me when I get back” - Jaishankar warns in reference to Rahul's anti-India outbursts abroad

".....when you step outside the country, there are sometimes things bigger than politics ....." says Jaishankar. 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said he tries not to “do politics abroad” while on international trips, in an apparent reference to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on foreign soil. Speaking in South Africa’s Cape Town, the minister was responding to a query on how he would react to “what some people who go to the US say”.

Dr Jaishankar

“There are sometimes things bigger than politics. And when you step outside the country, I think that’s important to remember,” he said, without naming Rahul Gandhi. “So I may differ strongly with someone, but how I counter it, I would like to go back home and do it, and watch me when I get back.”

He said, "I am perfectly prepared to argue very vigorously at home, so you will never find me wanting in that regard. But even a democratic culture has a certain collective responsibility… There is a national interest, there is a collective image".  

Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur has said, “Rahul Gandhi on his foreign trips wants to insult the Prime Minister but ends up insulting the country. He doesn’t even consider India as a nation and calls it a Union of states. He raises questions over India’s progress. What does he want to achieve on his foreign visits? Is mud-slinging all that he has left to do?” 

During his recent visit, Rahul Ganshi yet again showed disrespect to culture and Hindu tradition and compared PM Modi conducting Pranam at Parliament Building to 'lying down' and ridiculously said - "Aren’t you happy that I am not lying down?" 

Rahul Gandhi's remarks were in reference to PM Modi's prostration - a good old Hindu and Indian tradition !  

BJP leader Sudanshu Trivedi says it is a matter of astonishment that while no reputed organisation and intellectual platform ever invites Rahul Gandhi in India, various organisations do so overseas and Rahul Gandhi also obliges the select audience with his utterances against the country and the elected government in power.