Iran crisis: Rahul questions PM Modi's 'silence' on warship sinking in 'our backyard'

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said PM Narendra Modi's soundlessness successful the aftermath of "conflict" and the sinking of an Iranian warship showed that the PM had "surrendered strategy sovereignty". The absorption enactment besides slammed govt for "undoing" the overseas argumentation painstakingly built implicit the past 7 decades.Rahul said the satellite had entered a volatile signifier and "stormy seas" laic ahead, with lipid supplies and 40% of Indian imports transiting done the Strait of Hormuz nether threat. "The struggle has reached our backyard, with an Iranian warship sunk successful the Indian Ocean. Yet the PM has said nothing. At a infinitesimal similar this, we request a dependable manus astatine the wheel. Instead, India has a compromised PM who has surrendered our strategical autonomy," helium said.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the PM's soundlessness aft the sinking of the Iranian vessel that was India's impermanent showed "Modi government's reckless abdication of India's strategical and nationalist interests". He besides questioned the "absence" of maritime rescue and alleviation erstwhile 38 Indian-flagged commercialized ships on with 1,100 sailors were stuck successful the conflict-hit region.He said the authorities had besides not made nationalist the program to woody with rising lipid prices and constricted reserves, particularly aft agreeing with the US to halt import from Russia. One crore Indians were successful Gulf portion countries and determination were hopeless messages from aesculapian students seeking help, helium said. "Clearly, Modi's surrender is some governmental and moral. It demeans India's halfway nationalist interests and destroys our overseas argumentation cautiously built and followed by successive governments implicit the years," Kharge said.