New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday sharply criticised the Modi government's stance on the Palestine issue and said that India should now show leadership. She also alleged that the government's response and 'deep silence' is a betrayal of both humanity and morality.
The former Congress president, in an article written for English daily 'The Hindu', said that the government's steps appear to be mainly motivated by the personal friendship between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, rather than India's constitutional values ??or its strategic interests.
Sonia Gandhi said, "This style of personal diplomacy is never acceptable and cannot be a guide to India's foreign policy. In other parts of the world – especially in the US – attempts to do so have failed in the most tragic and humiliating manner in recent months.’’
This is the third time in the last few months that she has written an article on the Israel-Palestine conflict, in which she has, as always, sharply criticized the Modi government’s stance on the issue. Sonia Gandhi said in the article that France has joined Britain, Canada, Portugal and Australia in recognising the Palestinian state.
She mentioned that more than 150 of the 193 member states of the United Nations have now done so. The senior Congress leader stressed that India has been a pioneer in this matter, having formally recognised the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) on November 18, 1988, after years of support.