Pitroda's Remark Sparks New Storm, BJP Flays Cong

Cong distanced itself from Pitroda's statement about China & said that his words were not the views of party

- STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE

Congress veteran Sam Pitroda, who heads the party's overseas unit, has courted a new controversy after claiming that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion. The BJP lambasted the grand old party saying that friendship between Congress and China is quite old.

In an interview, Pitroda has said he does not understand the threat from China that India is facing. He claimed that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion and that the US always has a 'tendency to define an enemy'.

Hitting back, the BJP said the crux of the Congress's obsession with China lies in a 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the Congress and the Chinese Communist Party, the party that runs the neighbouring country.

The Congress distanced itself from Pitroda's statement about China and said that his statements were not the views of the party.