‘Were you sleeping in history class?’ Jaishankar’s ‘China guru’ dig at Rahul; slams Gandhi family | India News

S Jaishankar and Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: In a fiery deal with in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar launched a stinging, thinly veiled assault on Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. Jaishankar branded him a “China-guru” and accused him of buying his information of Beijing via “Olympic invites and private tuitions from Chinese diplomats.”The international minister, defending his latest go to to China, hit again at allegations that he hasn’t performed sufficient on the China entrance, saying he held no “secret meetings or deals”, in contrast to those that “took China tuitions” throughout the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “Some people got their China knowledge by going to the Olympics there. But, whom did they meet there? They did not just meet the Chinese, but also others,” he mentioned, in an obvious jibe at Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, who had attended the occasion as particular invitees. “But there are ‘China-gurus’ now and one sir is sitting across from me, whose affection for China is so great that he made a deal between India and China – ‘Chindia’,” Jaishankar mentioned, referring to a time period coined by Congress chief Jairam Ramesh. The minister mentioned he had spent 41 years in international service and served as India’s longest-serving ambassador to China, however nonetheless confronted accusations from the opposition of being comfortable on Beijing. “There may have been some shortcomings on my part on China, as I did not get China teaching by going to the China Olympics, as I was not invited and was not a special person,” he remarked sharply.Jaishankar flays Rahul on China-Pak nexus He alleged that cooperation between Pakistan and China had begun in the 1960s, but previous Indian governments failed to act decisively. “This ‘China guru’ says that China and Pakistan have come very close, which is the reality. They came together as we left PoK,” he added. Jaishankar dismissed the opposition’s concerns on national security and reminded the House of China’s control of Sri Lanka’s Hambantota Port, a strategic loss, he said, which occurred during the UPA government’s tenure. “The China-guru provides us lectures on China, they need to perceive that this occurred throughout their period,” he asserted. On his recent China visit, Jaishankar maintained, “Whatever I did and mentioned was publicly open. I mentioned terrorism, I mentioned de-escalation and I mentioned restrictions on commerce which China has put. I made it clear that relations with China will develop solely on three mutuals — mutual curiosity, mutual sensitivity, mutual respect.” “Unlike another individuals, I made no secret conferences, I did no secret offers. That solely Olympic individuals did, solely China-gurus do such issues and never regular individuals,” the minister said according to news agency PTI.