'Been to Pak, felt at home': Sam Pitroda lands in fresh row with his foreign policy advise

NEW DELHI: Indian Overseas Congress main Sam Pitroda has sparked caller fresh governmental statement with his overseas argumentation counsel for the cardinal authorities involving contiguous neighbours. Advocating for a neighbourhood-first policy, Pitroda said that helium had been to Pakistan and "felt astatine home," fixed the "common cistron pool" shared by the people."They are each small, they each request help, they are each going done hard times and there's nary request to fight. Of people there's a occupation of terrorism. But astatine the extremity of the day, successful that neighbourhood, there's communal cistron pool," Pitroda told IANS."I've been to Pakistan, and I indispensable archer you, I felt astatine home. I've been to Bangladesh, I've been to Nepal, and I consciousness astatine home. I don't consciousness similar I'm successful a overseas country. They look similar me, they speech similar me, they similar my songs, they devour my food.

So, I indispensable larn to unrecorded with them successful bid and harmony. That's my archetypal priority," helium added.The Bharatiya Janata Party reacted to Pitroda's comments calling him accusing Congress of choosing idiosyncratic who is "Pakistan's favourite."

BJP's '26/11' complaint astatine Congress

"BJP nationalist spokesperson Sam Pitroda Pradeep Bhandari accused the erstwhile UPA authorities of not 'tough enactment against Pak adjacent aft 26/11.' Rahul Gandhi’s blue-eyed lad & Congress Overseas main Sam Pitroda says helium ‘felt astatine home’ successful Pakistan.

No wonderment UPA took nary pugnacious enactment against Pak adjacent aft 26/11. Pakistan’s favourite, Congress’s chosen!" helium said.

Sam Pitroda, a longtime Gandhi household adjutant and president of the Overseas Indian Congress, has often recovered himself astatine the centre of controversies. Earlier this year, helium triggered a tempest with his comments connected China, forcing the Congress to region itself publicly.In June 2024, during the Lok Sabha campaign, Pitroda was forced to measurement down aft his statements connected inheritance taxation and a remark comparing the carnal features of Indians from antithetic regions with those of Africans, Arabs, and Chinese drew flak. He was reinstated lone aft an assurance that determination would beryllium nary repetition of specified controversies.