NEW DELHI: Exterior affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday stated that he doesn’t want the United Nations to inform that the elections within the nation needs to be “free & honest”.
Jaishankar, on the town to help BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s Lok Sabha marketing campaign, dismissed the UN official‘s comment on elections in India, stating it got here in response to a “loaded query” throughout a UN press briefing final week.
“I do not want the United Nations to inform me our elections needs to be free & honest. I’ve the individuals of India. The individuals of India will make sure that elections are free & honest. So, don’t be concerned about it,” the minister advised reporters throughout an interplay right here.
Final week, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-Normal Stephane Dujarric was requested in regards to the “political unrest” in India forward of the upcoming nationwide elections within the wake of the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the freezing of the opposition Congress Occasion’s financial institution accounts.
“What we very a lot hope that in India, as in any nation that’s having elections, that everybody’s rights are protected, together with political and civil rights, and everybody is ready to vote in an environment that’s free and honest,” Dujarric had stated.
Earlier, Jaishankar additionally requested different international locations to chorus from making political statements on India’s inner affairs or else will get a ‘very robust reply’ from India.
Responding to a query in regards to the latest feedback of US and German envoys on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest the Enforcement Directorate, the overseas minister stated that India had made it very clear that it objected to such statements.
“Any person requested an individual from the UN (about Kejriwal’s arrest), and he gave some reply. However in different instances, I might say very frankly these are outdated habits, these are dangerous habits,” Jaishankar stated.
“There’s a sure ‘maryada’ (restraint) amongst international locations. We’re sovereign international locations, we shouldn’t be interfering in one another’s inner affairs, we shouldn’t be passing feedback about one another’s politics,” he added.
The overseas minister additional stated that sure etiquettes, conventions and practices which should be adopted in worldwide relations and if any nation feedback in India’s politics, they are going to get a really robust reply from the federal government.
“We sincerely urge all of the international locations on this planet that by all means you might have your views in regards to the world, however no nation has the suitable to touch upon one other nation’s politics particularly in conditions like this,” Jaishankar stated.
Jaishankar, on the town to help BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s Lok Sabha marketing campaign, dismissed the UN official‘s comment on elections in India, stating it got here in response to a “loaded query” throughout a UN press briefing final week.
“I do not want the United Nations to inform me our elections needs to be free & honest. I’ve the individuals of India. The individuals of India will make sure that elections are free & honest. So, don’t be concerned about it,” the minister advised reporters throughout an interplay right here.
Final week, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-Normal Stephane Dujarric was requested in regards to the “political unrest” in India forward of the upcoming nationwide elections within the wake of the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the freezing of the opposition Congress Occasion’s financial institution accounts.
“What we very a lot hope that in India, as in any nation that’s having elections, that everybody’s rights are protected, together with political and civil rights, and everybody is ready to vote in an environment that’s free and honest,” Dujarric had stated.
Earlier, Jaishankar additionally requested different international locations to chorus from making political statements on India’s inner affairs or else will get a ‘very robust reply’ from India.
Responding to a query in regards to the latest feedback of US and German envoys on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest the Enforcement Directorate, the overseas minister stated that India had made it very clear that it objected to such statements.
“Any person requested an individual from the UN (about Kejriwal’s arrest), and he gave some reply. However in different instances, I might say very frankly these are outdated habits, these are dangerous habits,” Jaishankar stated.
“There’s a sure ‘maryada’ (restraint) amongst international locations. We’re sovereign international locations, we shouldn’t be interfering in one another’s inner affairs, we shouldn’t be passing feedback about one another’s politics,” he added.
The overseas minister additional stated that sure etiquettes, conventions and practices which should be adopted in worldwide relations and if any nation feedback in India’s politics, they are going to get a really robust reply from the federal government.
“We sincerely urge all of the international locations on this planet that by all means you might have your views in regards to the world, however no nation has the suitable to touch upon one other nation’s politics particularly in conditions like this,” Jaishankar stated.
