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EAM Jaishankar chairs Quad foreign ministers meet; BJP slams Rahul Gandhi over democracy remarks at Cambridge; more

The meeting of the Quad Foreign Ministers was hosted by India in New Delhi on Friday. The meeting was chaired by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong attended the Raisina Dialogue 2023.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has criticised Rahul Gandhi's 'Indian democracy under attack' remark at Cambridge University. He delivered a lecture to students at the university on the subject of ‘Learning to Listen in the 21st Century’. During his lecture Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said the institutional framework required for democracy is becoming constrained and the basic structure of Indian democracy is under attack. He also said that the government is using Pegasus to spy on him.

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