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Rahul Gandhi LIES AGAIN, claims PM Modi endorsed Trump for US President; Surjewala calls himself “Joe Biden”

January 19, 2021
The Commune

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who truly has special skills when it comes to lying and making nonsensical claims, today lied yet again. Addressing reporters at a press conference, the Wayanad MP made some false statements regarding PM Modi’s alleged endorsement of President Donald Trump in the 2020 US Presidential elections.

When a media-person asked the former Congress President for his comments on PM Modi’s silence on farmers but his comment on the recent US Capitol Hill siege, Rahul Gandhi held up Randeep Surjewala’s hand and said, “I remember Narendra Modi holding up Trump’s hand, saying Abki Baar Trump Sarkar.”

Surjewala immediately added, “I am not Trump, I am Joe Biden.”

Rahul Gandhi further elaborated, “The point is whether it is Trump or Joe Biden, as a Prime Minister of the country, you do not do something like this (endorsing Trump). By doing this, you are disrespecting the people of the United States. It is their choice and not your choice. So, it is a lack of understanding of fundamentals and now, of course, Trump has lost.”

Did PM Modi endorse Donald Trump ahead of the US Presidential Elections?

In fact, on the contrary, PM Modi had never endorsed any US presidential candidate or even expressed his private views on the goings-on in the 2020 US elections.

The claim made by Rahul Gandhi during the press conference is grossly misleading and inaccurate. It only aims to spread misinformation among the citizenry.

At the mega ‘Howdy Modi’ event held in Houston in Texas in September last year, Prime Minister Modi had recounted to the audience how President Trump’s 2016 US Presidential campaign team had come up with the slogan ‘Abki Baar Trump Sarkar’ to appeal to the Indian diaspora in the US. PM Modi was only referring to this campaign of the 2016, and not 2020, US Presidential elections.

Here is the full video of the speech, where PM Modi refers to the Trump campaign in the 2016 US Presidential elections.

PM Modi said, “We in India have connected well with President Trump. The words of candidate Trump, ‘Abki baar Trump sarkar’, rang loud and clear”. In October of 2016, as part of a campaign for the US Presidential elections, Donald Trump had said that the Indian and Hindu community in the US will have a ‘friend’ in the White House. Then, using Prime Minister Modi’s 2014 popular election slogan “Abki baar, Modi Sarkar”, Donald Trump had said, “Abki baar, Trump Sarkar” (This time, it will be a Trump government).

Rahul Gandhi also lies about China settling a village in India’s Arunachal Pradesh

The Congress leader, who is utterly failing to position himself as a credible opposition leader, also made false assertions regarding Chinese infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh. Earlier today — taking a dig at the Prime Minister for supposedly allowing the construction of a village by China on the Indian land in Arunachal Pradesh — he tweeted, “Main desh nahin jhukne dunga (I won’t let the country bow down)”, a popular refrain used by PM Modi to reiterate his commitment on maintaining the nation’s interests.

However, Rahul Gandhi did not bother to verify the facts before attacking PM Modi. As pointed out by MoS Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju, China had built a village on the land that was occupied by them several decades ago when Jawaharlal Nehru was India’s PM. Kiren Rijiju hails from Arunachal Pradesh.

In 1959, Chinese forces at Longju overran an Indian Army post in Arunachal Pradesh along the Indo-China border. Since then, the region has been occupied by China. India has never been able to re-occupy the post and China has been steadily shoring up infrastructure in the region.