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“Freedom Of Expression In India Is Not Subject To Any Enforced Silence,” Jagdeep Dhankhar

On Wednesday, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar warned those who criticise their own country outside that the freedom of expression in India is not subject to any “enforced silence,” and he said that some false narratives about India and its democracy were coming from some universities in other countries.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar

“As Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, I am aware that there is no imposed silence on freedom of speech in our nation. The individuals who suspect as much need to reexamine their perspective. At the 21st convocation of Dibrugarh University in Assam, Dhankar said, “These false narratives are coming from some universities outside.”

Dhankar was clearly referring to the controversy surrounding Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at Cambridge University in the UK earlier this year, in which he claimed that democracy in India was under attack and that the microphone in Parliament was turned off. He had also criticised the remarks made by the former head of Congress.
“You won’t find one more model where an employee, an understudy of a nation, reprimands their own country outside their country. There is not a politician who will travel the world to undermine our democratic principles. And this is not Indian culture,” Dhankar, who is also chairman of the Rajya Sabha, said without naming anyone in Assam.

“I dare say with confidence and fear of contradiction that India is currently the most vibrant and effective democracy on the planet. No country on the planet can profess to have a protected majority rule system for the town, regions, states, and Parliament,” he said.

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“You bear the responsibility, and you must find a way out so that such pernicious, sinister narratives can be stopped in their tracks.” It is time to help create an ecosystem so that our parliamentarians respond positively to the spirit and essence of our Constitution’s founding fathers, so I appeal to the media and intelligentsia.

The VP went to Manipur after Dibrugarh, where he talked to students and professors at Dhanamanjuri University.

Bharat Express English

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