‘What occurs to India’s picture when…’: Rahul Gandhi assaults PM Modi for ‘avoiding questions’ at Norway summit
Chief of the Opposition (LoP) within the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a journalist shared a video purportedly exhibiting the PM avoiding taking questions throughout a briefing in Norway.
PM Modi reached Norway from Sweden for a two-day go to and met King Harald V on the Royal Palace in Oslo. King Harald V offered Modi with Norway’s highest civilian honour, the Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Benefit.
Rahul Gandhi assaults Modi, calls him ‘compromised PM’
The Congress chief made the remarks on X whereas sharing a video of a Norwegian journalist making an attempt to ask Modi a query as he walked away.
“What occurs to India’s picture when the world sees a compromised PM panic and run from a couple of questions?,” Gandhi wrote on X.
Modi attended the third India-Nordic Summit and held key bilateral conferences with Nordic leaders.
Gandhi was responding to an X put up by Helle Lyng, a commentator for Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen, who had requested Modi a query on the summit however didn’t obtain a response.
She later posted on X, saying, “Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, wouldn’t take my query, I used to be not anticipating him to. Norway has the primary spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba. It’s our job to query the powers we cooperate with.”
PM Modi in Norway
That is Modi’s first go to to Norway and likewise marks the primary journey by an Indian prime minister to the nation in 43 years.
Modi and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Retailer held detailed discussions and referred to as for resolving tensions in Ukraine and West Asia via dialogue and diplomatic efforts.
The talks on Monday targeted on growing cooperation in sectors together with clear power, local weather resilience, blue economic system, inexperienced delivery, digital expertise, area and Arctic analysis.
“India and Norway each consider in a rules-based order, dialogue, and diplomacy. We’re in settlement that no problem may be resolved via navy battle,” PM Modi stated in his televised media assertion after the talks.
A joint assertion stated the 2 prime ministers strongly and clearly condemned terrorism and violent extremism in all varieties and manifestations, together with cross-border terrorism.
With inputs from companies
