India must demonstrate leadership on Palestine issue; Modi govt’s response ‘abdication of humanity’: Sonia

ASSERTING that India needs to demonstrate leadership on the issue of Palestine, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi slammed the Modi government's stance, saying its response has been characterised by a "profound silence" and an abdication of both humanity and morality.

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She said the government's actions appear to be driven primarily by the personal friendship between PM Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu rather than India's constitutional values or its strategic interests.

"This style of personalised diplomacy is never tenable and cannot be the guiding compass of India's foreign policy. Attempts to do the same in other parts of the world, most notably in the United States have come undone in the most painful and humiliating ways in recent months,” Gandhi said in her article published in The Hindu.