First abuse Oppn, then take its help: Jairam on multi-party delegations on Op Sindoor
The Congress on Monday said after 11 years of abusing and defaming the Opposition, the Prime Minister has now been forced to seek its help and send all-party delegations overseas.
“The truth is that the BJP’s poisonous politics at home has cost us hugely abroad. Our sanctimonious diplomacy has fallen flat and India is back to being hyphenated with Pakistan. That is the real ‘new normal’. The self-styled Vishwaguru’s balloon — which was full of hot air — has been truly punctured,” said Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh.
He further said, “This is a reflection of his (PM’s) own inadequacies that the Prime Minister is now turning towards bipartisanship. But this is only momentary, hypocritical and opportunistic.”
Meanwhile, three of the four Congress MPs, who figure in the official MEA list of multi-party delegations for going abroad but were absent from the party’s own list of nominees for Operation Sindoor outreach programme, have confirmed their participation in the government tour.
Four-time Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was the first to accept the invite, saying he was honoured to have been selected to represent the country at this critical moment.
His colleague and former minister Manish Tewari confirmed his participation in the government delegation yesterday, while Fatehgarh Saheb MP Amar Singh is the latest to say yes to the tour.
On Monday, Amar Singh told The Tribune that he would go with the Indian delegation. Now former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid is the only Congress MP on the official government list, who is yet to confirm his participation.
The Congress had named Anand Sharma, Gaurav Gogoi, Nasir Hussain and Raja Brar for the tour, but the government included only Anand Sharma from the Congress list.
The government had originally nominated Tharoor, Tewari, Khurshid and Singh to the multi-party delegation. The seven delegations, consisting of 59 leaders, will travel from May 24 to June 3.
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