"Will Listen If Rahul Gandhi Has Superior Wisdom On China": S Jaishankar

S Jaishankar taking a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over his foreign policy comment, said he was ready to listen to the Congress MP if he has "superior knowledge and wisdom" on China.

Foreign Minister S Jaishankar today fired back at Rahul Gandhi, who recently suggested that he did not know much about foreign policy and "needed to learn some more". He also hit back at the Congress leader on his frequent criticism of what he describes as the government's "defensive" China policy.

"If I would have to sum up this China thing, please do not buy this narrative that somewhere the government is on the defensive...somewhere we are being accommodative. I ask people if we were being accommodative who sent the Indian Army to the LAC (Line of Actual Control). Rahul Gandhi did not send them. Narendra Modi sent them," Dr Jaishankar told news agency ANI in a special podcast.

"We have today the largest peacetime deployment in our history on the China border. We are keeping troops there at a huge cost with great effort. We have increased our infrastructure spending on the border five times in this government. Now tell me who is the defensive and accommodative person? Who is actually telling the truth? Who is depicting things accurately? Who is playing footsie with history?"

The Foreign Minister, taking a swipe at Rahul Gandhi over his foreign policy comment, said he was ready to listen to the Congress MP if he has "superior knowledge and wisdom" on China.