Damage control after failed Operation Sindoor narrative: Cong

The Congress on Saturday termed the government’s global outreach on Operation Sindoor as a “damage-control exercise after the narrative around the issue had been punctured”.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh, while welcoming the exercise, said, “This shows the government’s narrative has been punctured and suddenly the Prime Minister, who did not chair any all-party meeting, did not call a special session of Parliament despite Congress’ requests and did not break silence on US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims of mediation, has decided to send an all-party delegation to various countries.”

Jairam recalled late PM Indira Gandhi’s global outreach during the 1971 war with Pakistan and said she stood up to then US President Richard Nixon.

“Indira Gandhi personally requested Jayaprakash Narayan to go and he travelled. Indira Gandhi herself went to the USSR, Austria, Belgium, London, Washington, Paris and West Germany. On November 4, she met Nixon and told him the US can do what it wants and that she will act in India’s interest. She returned on November 13, 1971, and on December 16, the Pakistani army surrendered. But here you have President Trump saying for the seventh time that he mediated the India-Pakistan ceasefire and dangled the trade carrot and the PM is silent," said Jairam.

The Congress leader reiterated the party’s demand for a special session of Parliament to recall the February 22, 1994, resolution stating that the whole of J&K, including Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, was an integral part of India.

Jairam said the government’s diplomacy had failed and the PM and the Foreign Minister did not want to respond to Trump or his Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statements. “This multi-party delegation is a damage-control exercise after the control on narrative was lost," he added.

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