Congress veteran Sam Pitroda, who heads the party’s overseas unit, has courted a new controversy after claiming that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion.
Indian Overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda (Photo: IANS/File)
Congress veteran Sam Pitroda, who heads the party’s overseas unit, has courted a new controversy after claiming that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion. The BJP lambasted the grand old party saying that friendship between Congress and China is quite old.
Pitroda has claimed that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion and that the US always has a ‘tendency to define an enemy’.
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In an interview, he said he does not understand the threat from China that India is facing. He claimed that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion and that the US always has a ‘tendency to define an enemy’.
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Hitting back, the BJP said the crux of the Congress’s obsession with China lies in a 2008 Memorandum for Understanding between the Congress and the Chinese Communist Party, the party that runs the neighbouring country.
BJP leader Ajay Alok said, “…Sam Pitroda is the mentor of Rahul Gandhi…Rahul Gandhi has also signed a secret treaty with the People’s Liberation Party of China. Rajiv Gandhi had taken funds from China. Jawaharlal Nehru gave Aksai Chin and India’s seat in UNSC to China. The friendship between Congress and China is quite old…”
Pradeep Bhandari, another BJP spokesperson, pointed out that Pitroda is a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and accused the Congress of prioritising China’s interest above India’s.
He said, “Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi, and George Soros work as China’s agents. The secret MoU of 2008, which took place between the Communist Party of China and the Congress Party, that secret MoU has not yet been disclosed by the Congress Party. At the time of Doklam, Rahul Gandhi was secretly meeting China’s ambassador… Sam Pitroda’s statement clarifies that Rahul Gandhi and the Congress Party have a soft corner for China…”
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