Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday urged citizens to ‘be on watch out,’ as he cautioned them against ‘attempts by some to infuse a narrative,’ that events similar to Bangladesh, 'could happen in India too.'

The VP did not name anyone; he was referring to Congress leaders Salman Khurshid and Mani Shankar Aiyar.

“Be on watch out!! Efforts by some to infuse a narrative that what happened in our neighbourhood is bound to happen in our Bharat, is deeply concerning,” Dhankhar said in Jodhpur, at the platinum jubilee celebrations of the Rajasthan high court.

“How can a citizen of this country having been a Member of Parliament (Khurshid), and the other (Aiyar) who has seen enough of Foreign Services, takes no time in saying that what happened in the neighbourhood will happen in India?” he asked.

A third Congressman, Sajjan Singh Verma from the party's Madhya Pradesh unit, had made a similar comment, saying that just like protestors in Bangladesh occupied the official residence of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister ousted by a student-led uprising in India's eastern neighbour, people in India, too, would ‘storm’ the residence of prime minister Narendra Modi some day.

Hasina was ousted as Bangladesh's premier on August 5 and flew straight to Delhi from Dhaka shortly leaving her nation; she has been staying in Delhi since then. The seasoned leader had been in power since 2009 and won her fourth consecutive term – record fifth overall – in January. However, the election was boycotted by opposition parties, and the legitimacy of the vote was questioned by governments of the United States and United Kingdom, among others.

Meanwhile, an interim administration, led by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, took oath in Dhaka on Thursday. The renowned economist, 84, will be assisted by a 16-member advisory council.