Amit Shah slams Rahul for 'defaming' India, says 'Stop foreign tours, visit villages'

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of maligning India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi before an international audience, telling the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha to stop travelling abroad and visit villages if he wanted his party to return to power.

His comments came a day after Gandhi told the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad that defeating PM Modi was a “done deal”. Gandhi said he was confident the Opposition would remove Modi from power and claimed there was growing fear within the ruling establishment.

“Defaming India at international platforms will not



help him come to power,” Shah said after laying the foundation stone for the National Heavy Engineering Cooperative in Pune.

“If he aspires to return to power, he should stop travelling abroad and start visiting villages across India. Then, perhaps, he may have a chance.”

Shah alleged that Gandhi had used the summit, organised by Telangana’s Congress government on November 13 and 14, to run down India’s democratic institutions and PM Modi’s development record. He asked whether any party could justify maligning the country and its prime minister before an international audience.