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NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the US government was silent on “what was happening in India”, a remark that came as part of a conversation on defending the idea of democracy against the dictatorial vision of China and Russia.
In an online interaction with Rahul Gandhi, former US ambassador Nicolas Burns said democracies were on a test if they had the self-confidence to defend their ideas of democracy against the “harsh vision being offered by China and Russia”. Interjecting, Rahul said, “I don’t hear anything from the US establishment. If you are saying ‘partnership of democracies’, what is your view on what is going on here? I fundamentally believe that America is a profound idea, the idea of freedom, the way it is encapsulated in your constitution, it’s a very powerful idea. But you have to defend that idea. And that is the real question.”
