EAM's Parl statement bereft of any laser-eyed insights into paradigm global shift: Cong

NEW DELHI: (Mar 10) The Congress on Monday termed as "vapid" External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's statement on the West Asia situation in Parliament and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy "(mis)adventurism" coupled with the government's undermining of the Indian Foreign Service are pushing India into "vassalage".

In a statement, the Congress' foreign affairs department, headed by former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, said the EAM's statement "inexplicably" made no protest against the sinking of IRIS Dena in India's strategic backyard, which compromises India's role as a net-security provider in the Indian Ocean Region.

Jaishankar's statement did neither condemned the targeted killing of the head of state of a sovereign nation, nor did it offer solutions to redress the serious geo-economic and geopolitical costs that India is having to bear, and escalations that it may have to face, the party said in the statement.