Congress Accuses PM Of Campaigning For Trump, Says It Violates ‘Time Honoured Principle’
Mumbai: The Indian National Congress accused PM Narendra Modi of violating the “time-honoured principle” of Indian foreign policy by not campaigning for the other country’s domestic elections by campaigning for US President Donald Trump at the ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston.
In a series of tweets, Congress senior spokesperson Anand Sharma said Modi was in the US as India’s prime minister and not a star campaigner in the US elections.
“Mr Prime Minister, you have violated the time-honoured principle of Indian foreign policy of not interfering in the domestic elections of another country. This is a singular disservice to the long-term strategic interests of India,” Sharma said on Twitter after the Howdy Modi event in Texas on Sunday night.
https://twitter.com/AnandSharmaINC/status/1175826256530509827
“Our relationship with the United States of America have throughout been bipartisan, vis- -vis Republicans and Democrats. Your actively campaigning for Trump is a breach of both India and America as sovereign nations and democracies,” he added.
https://twitter.com/AnandSharmaINC/status/1175826258367614976
Earlier, P Chidambaram, who is in Tihar Jail on alleged corruption charges, slammed the Prime Minister in Houston over his “everything is fine” comment.
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