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New Delhi:<\/strong> Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has taken a five-day pause from the ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, from February 26 to March 1, and is headed to the United Kingdom for delivering two lectures at the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n Congress In-charge for Communications, Jairam Ramesh, informed that the Wayanad MP will resume the Yatra from March 2, after his long-standing commitment to deliver \u2018special lectures\u2019 at his alma mater.<\/p>\n Rahul has been a regular visitor and orator at foreign universities for sometime now, and has often ignited controversy with his denouncement of the Narendra Modi dispensation from foreign soil.<\/p>\n This time, his foreign visit in the heat of the poll season has also left some INDIA bloc partners \u2018baffled\u2019 and \u2018bewildered\u2019 at the \u2018timing of the UK visit\u2019.<\/p>\n Many allies are wondering what led to such \u2018need and urgency\u2019 for Rahul to attend events at foreign soil when the party\u2019s seat-sharing talks for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls still remain in limbo.<\/p>\n Political watchers and analysts have already questioned the rationale behind the \u2018Nyay Yatra\u2019 in the run-up to the 2024 polls.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the party should have used all its might in speeding up public outreach programmes besides mobilising and galvanising support, the top leadership is seen walking on the streets,\u201d said one of the analysts.<\/p>\n Rahul\u2019s recent visits to foreign soil had hogged headlines, more for his frontal attack on the Modi government and less for \u2018intellectual talk\u2019.<\/p>\n At a couple of recent occasions, Rahul spoke in person or gave interviews to people with \u2018anti-India\u2019 mindset and launched no-holds barred attacks on the Modi government as well as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).<\/p>\n Rahul\u2019s statement in the UK last year had led to a huge backlash as he reportedly sought foreign intervention for restoring the \u2018crumbling\u2019 democracy in India.<\/p>\n As expected, it drew an angry and blistering retort from the BJP, which accused him of maligning India\u2019s image and also compromising the country\u2019s sovereignty on foreign soil.<\/p>\n There are multiple incidents when Rahul\u2019s anti-establishment statements, made on foreign soil, sparked a major storm back home. Similar fears are being expressed on social media, as Rahul packs his punches for his upcoming session at the Cambridge University.<\/p>\n During his visit to the UK in 2022, Rahul had claimed that \u2018India\u2019s soul was under attack\u2019 and it was done at the behest of the incumbent governhment.<\/p>\n Rahul\u2019s \u2018democracy under attack\u2019 charge from London snowballed into a huge controversy. He also claimed that he was not allowed to speak in the Parliament. Incensed over the charges, the BJP ripped into the Congress and accused it of \u2018bowing to foreign forces\u2019 to derail democracy in India.<\/p>\n Rahul\u2019s 2023 visit to United States saw his tirade against the government reaching a new level.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is happening to Muslims in India today happened to Dalits in the 1980s,\u201d Rahul had said in San Francisco in May 2023.<\/p>\n Rahul also met Sunita Viswanath, allegedly a proxy of Open Society Foundation George Soros, who is known to have aggressively campaigned against India and Hinduism in the West.<\/p>\n During his 2018 visit to Malaysia, Rahul had lambasted the Modi government over demonetisation and had also listed out the \u2018inherent\u2019 flaws in it.<\/p>\n Rahul\u2019s litany of charges and attacks on the Modi government from foreign nations may have been a calculated move of top strategists, but this has largely backfired than giving the party a tactical advantage.<\/p>\n With Rahul\u2019s visit coming just ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, it is widely believed that the Congress MP will take the opportunity to unleash a fresh wave of attack on the Centre.<\/p>\n Interestingly, political pundits are also eager to see if Rahul makes it loud and clear or whether the narrative is given a turnaround and used to its advantage by the BJP.<\/p>\n (IANS) <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n