Rahul’s foreign visits just .001% as compared to Modi’s: Congress

Rahul Gandhi, who is on a two-week trip to the US, talked about violence and politics of polarisation and Kashmir during ‘India at 70’ lecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

The Congress said on Tuesday its vice-president Rahul Gandhi was visiting the United States to present the opposition’s perspective on contemporary India and the way forward for the world’s largest democracy.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. (PTI)

Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party for criticising Rahul’s US visit, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the party vice-president has gone abroad only 0.001% as compared to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“If you calculate, Rahul Gandhi’s foreign visits constitute barely .001% of the visits made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi abroad.

“But it has become a habit of some people (like BJP) to make fun of this and crack jokes. The BJP has become a master at doing it,” he said.

Rahul, 47, left on Monday for his nearly two-week trip to the United States. He is scheduled to address the University of California, Berkeley, on the subject ‘India at 70 — Reflections on the Path forward’, where he will talk about contemporary India and the path forward for the world’s largest democracy.