{"id":324842,"date":"2020-07-20T06:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324842"},"modified":"2020-07-20T06:35:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:35:16","slug":"pms-fabricated-strongman-image-has-become-indias-biggest-weakness-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pms-fabricated-strongman-image-has-become-indias-biggest-weakness-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"PM\u2019s fabricated strongman image has become India\u2019s biggest weakness: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the India-China border face off issue saying he fabricated a \u201cfake\u201d strongman image to come to power and now his biggest strength is \u201cIndia\u2019s biggest weakness\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPM fabricated a fake strongman image to come to power. It was his biggest strength. It is now India\u2019s biggest weakness,\u201d Rahul tweeted along with the video.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the video message, speaking on \u201cChina\u2019s Strategic Game Plan\u201d Rahul said, \u201cIt is simply not a border issue. The worry I have is that the Chinese are sitting in our territory today. Chinese don\u2019t do anything without thinking about it strategically.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn their mind, they have mapped out the world and they are trying to shape the world. That\u2019s the scale of what they are doing. That’s what Gwadar is, that is what belt and road is. It is a restructuring of the planet. So when you are thinking about the Chinese you have to understand that that is the level at which they are thinking,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rahul said at the tactical level, the Chinese are trying to position themselves in various areas of Ladakh along the LoC, including Galwan Valley, Demchok and Pangong Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re disturbed by our highway, they want to make our highway redundant and if they are thinking on a larger scale, they want to do something with Pakistan in Kashmir. So, it is not simply a border issue. It is a border issue designed to put pressure on the Prime Minister of India,\u201d Rahul said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they are thinking of putting pressure in a very particular way. And what they are doing, is that they are attacking his image. They understand that in order for Mr Narendra Modi to be an effective politician; in order for Mr Narendra Modi to survive as a politician, he has to protect the idea of \u2018chhappan-inch\u2019. And this is the real idea the Chinese are attacking. They are basically telling Mr Narendra Modi that if you do not do what we say, we will destroy the idea of Mr Narendra Modi as a strong leader,\u201d said the Congress leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rahul further said now the question is, how will\u00a0PM Modi\u00a0react. Will he take them on? Will he take on the challenge and say absolutely not, \u201cI\u2019m the Prime Minister. I do not care about my image. I\u2019m going to take you on. Or will he succumb to them?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe worry I have so far is that the Prime Minister has succumbed. The worry I have is, the Chinese are sitting in our territory today and the Prime Minister has said publicly they are not, which to me tells me that he is worried about his image and defending his image,\u201d said Rahul.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday launched a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the India-China border face off issue saying he fabricated a \u201cfake\u201d strongman image to come to power and now his biggest strength is \u201cIndia\u2019s biggest weakness\u201d. \u201cPM fabricated a fake strongman image to come to power. It was his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324846,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324842\/revisions\/324846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}