Monday (September 23): Indian National Congress party has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of violating Indian foreign policy’s “time honored principle” by campaigning for US President Donald Trump at the Howdy Modi event in Houston.
The “time honored principle” of India’s foreign policy asks for PM to not interfere in the domestic elections of another country.
The Presidential elections are due in USA next year.
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.
Reminding you that you are in the USA as our Prime Minister and not a star campaigner in US elections.
— Anand Sharma (@AnandSharmaINC) September 22, 2019
“Our relationship with the United States of America have throughout been bipartisan, vis- a -vis Republicans and Democrats. Your actively campaigning for Trump is a breach of both India and America as sovereign nations and democracies,” he added in another tweet.
Another party leader Mr. P. Chidambaram, while taking a dig at the prime minister over his “Everything is fine in India” remark in Houston, tweeted through his family that “Bharat mai sab achha hai. Except for unemployment, loss of existing jobs, lower wages, mob violence, lockdown in Kashmir and throwing Opposition leaders in prison.”
Bharat mai sab achha hai.
Except for unemployment, loss of existing jobs, lower wages, mob violence, lockdown in Kashmir and throwing Opposition leaders in prison.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) September 23, 2019