Reacting sarcastically, perhaps in a coded criticism of the Congress party, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar recently warned the citizens not to let anybody attempt to ‘inject a narrative’ of a Bangladesh-like situation making its way to India.
Speaking at an event on Saturday, Dhankhar expressed concerns about comments made by some politicians, stating that the conditions observed in India’s neighboring country can change in India.
The Vice President said the efforts of some individuals to spin a story that what has happened in our neighbourhood is inevitable in Bharat are worrisome.
Challenges to secularism have indeed emerged, and incidentally, so did the comments by P Chidambaram and Suman Bery that India might be threatened by an equivalent movement to that in Bangladesh at the time that Dhankhar was insulting another group of distinguished Congress leaders Salman Khurshid and Mani Shankar Aiyar for arguing the very same point.
Khurshid had said that the situation in Bangladesh could happen here, while Aiyar opined that doubts over the integrity of the elections in India have started to resemble those in Bangladesh.
The former, however, heavily warned against such sentiment, calling on citizens to hold their breath against ‘anti-national forces’ planning to destabilize the country’s most basic constitutional body.
Concerning his foreign service, the Vice President shared: “So how the citizen of this country has been a Member of Parliament and the other who has seen enough of Foreign Service take no time in saying that what happened in the neighborhood will happen in India! Be on watch out!!”
He emphasized the importance of people working for the country’s benefit and said that anti-national forces might try to enter the three main institutional structures of Indian democracy.
Thus, Dhankhar’s harsh remarks reflect the government’s fear of outside influence in the country’s affairs, especially after the events in Bangladesh.
