Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday alleged that the government tells visiting foreign dignitaries not to meet the Leader of the Opposition due to its “insecurity”.

Gandhi’s remarks came hours ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to India.

The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha said it is a tradition that visiting foreign dignitaries meet the LoP, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Ministry of External Affairs were not following this norm.

“Normally, the tradition is that those who come from abroad have a meeting with the LoP. This used to happen during (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee ji’s time, Manmohan Singh ji’s time, it has been a tradition, but what happens these days is that when foreign dignitaries come and when I go abroad, the government suggest

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