India, Sept. 11 -- With India's neighbourhood in the grip of protests over the past half a decade - from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, and now Nepal - a spokesperson of the main opposition party, the Congress, has said that such a thing will not happen in India "as it has already happened here" and "its beneficiaries are already in power".

Congress leader Surendra Rajput said power is now with "beneficiaries of the anarchy", for which he held responsible the Anna Hazare-Arvind Kejriwal movement that catalysed the Congress's ouster from power over a decade ago.

"India has already endured the kind of anarchy seen in Nepal and Bangladesh, when our government was destabilised by the conspiracies of foreign powers," Rajput, a national media panel...