Guard democracy at any cost: Rahul Gandhi

In a Facebook post, Gandhi wrote. “Our democracy is our greatest strength. We must defend it at any cost.”

Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday in a Facebook post, called upon his followers to defend India’s democracy “at any cost”, giving a reference to Afghanistan.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi addresses Indian diaspora, in Dubai on Jan 11. (PTI Photo)

Gandhi met Afghan lawmakers who came to Indian Parliament to watch debates .

“One day, in our Parliament, I saw a group of MPs from Afghanistan.... And, I was thinking, “these MPs have come from abroad and look what we are doing: we are shouting and screaming and yelling. At least when they are here why can’t this place be in order?” Later ... I said to them “I am sorry that you were sitting in the visitors’ gallery and we were not having a nice debate. We were sort of having an argument”,” Gandhi wrote.

He added one of the Afghan MPs started crying at what Gandhi said. “... I asked her “what happened?” “You know, Mr. Gandhi,” she said, “in my country the arguments that you have in this building, your parliament, are carried out with guns”,”