Met China envoy, my job to be informed on critical issues: Rahul
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi confirmed on Monday his meeting with Chinese envoy Luo Zhaohui as he took to Twitter to clear the confusion created by his party colleagues over the interaction.
“It is my job to be informed on critical issues. I met the Chinese Ambassador, Ex-NSA, Congress leaders from NE & the Bhutanese Ambassador,” he tweeted.
In the morning, Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had denied that any such interaction took place after a TV channel reported about the meeting between Gandhi and Luo.
However, he later accepted that Gandhi had met not only the Chinese ambassador but also the Bhutanese envoy and former national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon.
“If Govt is so concerned abt me meeting an Amb,they shld explain why 3Ministers are availing Chinese hospitality while the border issue is on,” Gandhi said and posted a link of a news article on Union minister Prakash Javadekar’s visit to Beijing.
“And for the record I am not the guy sitting on the swing while a thousand Chinese troops had physically entered India,” the Congress leader said in another tweet and posted another article with a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese president Xi Jinping on the swing on one side and a report of 1,000 Chinese soldiers entering India on the other.