Foreign varsities engaged in anti-India activities: Dhankhar

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said “dangers are emanating from outfits”, including some foreign universities doubling up as centres of subversive anti-India activities out to demolish the country’s civilisation ethos and sully and muddy its growth.
He said disturbing insights in the hidden agenda of the so-called elites in India is alarming and unfortunately getting reflected in the working of our constitutional institution. It is the responsibility of the Parliament to safeguard India’s national sovereignty and cultural integrity from any kinds of threats internally or externally, the vice president said.
“Our democracy, on path to unprecedented growth and glory, needs that its wings – the legislature, the judiciary and the executive – act in tandem and togetherness for smooth upward flight journey. We all must ensure this,” he said at the inauguration ceremony of two-day celebrations to mark the 16th Civil Services Day here. These constitutional entities can ill afford to weaponise authority by effecting incursions in the domain of the other, he said, adding that the legislature, judiciary and executive serve best while functioning in their respective domain. “Dangers are emanating from outfits, within and without, including some foreign universities doubling up as centres of subversive anti-Bharat activities out to demolish our civilisation ethos and sully and muddy our growth,” the vice president said. He said Parliament alone is “incharge of legislation” and competent to enforce it. Legislation is the exclusive preserve of the Parliament, the most authentic reflector of the will of the people at large, he said.
“Under our constitutional scheme neither the legislature nor the judiciary can emerge as a powerful political actor- this is best left to the political class.