Hours after Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi posted a video on Twitter targeting the Modi government, Foreign
Minister S Jaishankar hit back with his response to every allegation levied by former Congress chief. 

The Congress leader on Friday
morning tweeted a video of him discussing the border tensions between India and
China and wrote, “Since 2014, the PM’s constant blunders and indiscretions
have fundamentally weakened India and left us vulnerable. Empty words don’t
suffice in the world of geopolitics.”

The Foreign Minister point-by-point answered his questions.

On Gandhi’s question on ties
with neighbouring countries, Jaishankar wrote, “Our major partnerships are
stronger and international standing higher. Witness regular summits and
informal meetings with the US, Russia, Europe and Japan. India engages China on
more equal terms politically… Ask the analysts.”

“We speak our mind
more openly now. On CPEC, on BRI, on South China Sea, on UN sanctioned
terrorists, etc… Ask the media,” he tweeted, referring to the so-called
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the Belt and Road Initiative.

“Difficult ties with Maldives, after India watched President Nasheed being
toppled in 2012, now stand transformed… Ask our businesses,” Jaishankar
tweeted.

“Nepal after 17
years is getting Prime Ministerial visits. And a swathe of developmental
projects: power, fuel, housing, hospital, roads, etc… Ask their
citizens,” he said.

“And Pakistan (that you skipped) surely notes the
difference between Balakot and Uri on the one hand, and Sharm-el-Sheikh, Havana
and 26/11 on the other… Ask yourself,” the Foreign Minister summed up
his tweet thread.

Gandhi had accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of hiding the facts about
Chinese aggression in eastern Ladakh. On June 15, 20 soldiers were killed in a
violent face-off between Indian and Chinese troops in the Galwan valley.

The Centre has denied the allegation and PM Modi had clearly
said that “Neither is anyone inside our territory nor is any of our post
captured.”