Parliament must debate 'dissonance' in foreign policy: Congress MP Sonia Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Terming the PM Modi govt's "silence" connected Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's targeted assassination and onslaught connected Iran arsenic signalling a "tacit endorsement" of the tragedy, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi has demanded that Parliament sermon the "dissonance" successful overseas argumentation erstwhile it resumes adjacent week - suggesting that the absorption volition powerfully rise the caller events of West Asia successful the Budget session.She said the sidesplitting of a sitting caput of authorities successful the mediate of ongoing negotiations marks a sedate rupture successful modern planetary relations. Leader of the absorption Rahul Gandhi asked if PM Modi "supports the assassination of a caput of authorities arsenic a mode to specify the satellite order". Urging Modi to talk up, Rahul said soundlessness diminishes India's lasting successful the world.In a media article, Sonia said Modi's caller sojourn to Israel and "his unconditional support" for the Benjamin Netanyahu govt conscionable 2 days earlier the US-Israel attacks connected Iran has raised superior questions, too the abandoning of an aged state similar Iran.

She asked wherefore the "Global South" would spot India to support its territorial sovereignty erstwhile it cannot adjacent support that principle. The cognition of govt has raised superior doubts astir the absorption and credibility of India's overseas policy, she said. Sonia emphasised the request for "us to rediscover" the motivation spot of the values India has stood for - sovereignty, peace, justice, non-violence.She said the PM ignored the monolithic US-Israeli onslaught connected Iran, and condemned Iran's retaliatory onslaught connected the UAE without addressing the series of events that preceded it. Noting that India's ties with Israel person successful caller years expanded crossed defence, agriculture and technology, Sonia said India's relations with some Tehran and Tel Aviv springiness it the abstraction to impulse restraint.