Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, on Monday said that the reason why China is sitting inside India is because Make in India has failed.
India’s Chief of Army Staff has said that the Chinese are inside our territory, claimed Gandhi. “This is a fact.” “But the reason China is inside our territory is important because people think that wars are fought between armies and their weapons. But the fact of the matter is that wars are fought by industrial systems. The fact of the matter is that China has an industrial system that is far stronger, bigger than our system, and that is why they have the guts to come inside our country. The reason China is sitting inside this country is because Make in India has failed,” said the Congress MP.ALSO READ: ‘Both UPA and NDA failed to provide jobs, I don’t blame PM’: Rahul Gandhi speaks during Budget session; Here are highlights He further said, people talk about AI, but it’s important to understand that AI on its own is absolutely meaningless because AI operates on top of data.”Without data, AI means nothing.” Gandhi said, “And if we look at data today, there is one thing which is very clear. Every single piece of data that comes out of the production system in the world. The data that was used to make this phone, the data that is used to make electric cars.”The data that is used to make basically all electronics on the planet today is owned by China, said Gandhi.”And the consumption data is owned by the United States… China has at least a 10 year lead on India in this space. China has been working on batteries, robots, motors, optics for the last 10 years and we are behind…”On Trump’s inauguration:Attacking the central government on US president Donald Trump’s inauguration, Gandhi said, “When we talk to the United States we would not send our foreign minister to get invite for our Prime Minister to his (Donald Trump’s) coronation, we would not send him (foreign minister) three or four times to get an invite for our Prime Minister, if we were working on our production then the American President would come here and invite the PM.”
Reacting to Gandhi’s statements, Kiren Rijiju asked Gandhi to apologise for ‘lying’ to the House.