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The Congress connected Thursday (March 26, 2026) took a excavation astatine the Modi authorities implicit its “dalaal nation” notation to Pakistan’s reported mediation successful the West Asia conflict, saying "the self-styled Vishwaguru's" diplomacy and communicative failures person turned a "broken state into a broker country".
Congress wide caput successful complaint of communications, Jairam Ramesh, said the dapper and long-experienced External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is doing his champion to screen up India's "extreme embarrassment" and the setback to its determination diplomacy from Pakistan's emergence arsenic a mediator and facilitator of talks to extremity the existent warfare successful West Asia.
"It is genuinely atrocious that Pakistan is being considered acceptable for the role. This is simply a state whose authorities has orchestrated coercion successful India and different countries for implicit 4 decades; fixed sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and different dreaded planetary terrorists for decades and egregiously breached atomic non-proliferation laws to assistance different countries spell nuclear.”
"The relation of the AQ Khan web has been good documented and publically acknowledged by the then-President Musharraf himself. Mercilessly bombed hospitals and civilian facilities successful Afghanistan and waged warfare against its ain citizens and spiritual minorities successful antithetic provinces, including Baluchistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and different provinces," Mr. Ramesh said connected X.
The Congress person said that Pakistan tin adjacent beryllium truthful considered for a mediating role, is the astir damning indictment of some the substance and benignant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diplomacy, which has been afloat of bombast and marked by cowardice.
Remember, that Pakistan stood isolated aft it had carried retired the 26/11 panic attacks successful Mumbai, due to the fact that Dr. Manmohan Singh's authorities was capable to person the satellite of Pakistan's nefarious role, helium said.
"In contrast, adjacent aft the communally incendiary and poisonous statements of the Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir provided the oxygen for the panic attacks successful Pahalgam connected April 22, 2025, we person been incapable to isolate Pakistan connected the planetary stage," Mr. Ramesh said.
In fact, it has lone emerged arsenic a much applicable actor, and aft May 10, 2025, itself, it has go wide that Field Marshal Asim Munir had go a favourite of U.S. President Donald Trump and his team, helium said.
"The External Affairs Minister said past nighttime that India is not a broker country. Be that arsenic it may, the information remains that the colossal failures successful our diplomacy, outreach, and communicative absorption person made a breached state a broker country," Mr. Ramesh said.
"That is the self-styled Vishwaguru's singular publication to our diplomatic grounds - which nary magnitude of one-liners from the EAM tin erase," helium said.
The Congress connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) besides had a swipe astatine the authorities aft it called Pakistan a "dalaal nation" successful notation to its reported mediation successful the West Asia conflict, saying the nonaccomplishment of "Modi huglomacy" is that a breached state is present poised to beryllium a broker state .
The absorption party's jibe came aft the authorities told an all-party gathering connected the West Asia concern that determination is thing caller successful Pakistan's mediation efforts successful the substance arsenic that state has been "used" by the U.S. since 1981.
"We are not a dalaal nation," Mr. Jaishankar is said to person told the attendees of the gathering convened astatine the Parliament analyzable to sermon the West Asia crisis.
Reacting to it, Mr. Ramesh had said connected X, "Failure of Modi huglomacy: a breached state is present poised to beryllium a 'broker country'".
Sources said that the authorities refuted the opposition's complaint that New Delhi was soundless connected the situation, asserting that "we are commenting and responding".
The authorities is besides said to person informed the parties that its premier interest is ensuring the information of the Indian diaspora surviving successful the Gulf portion and fulfilling home vigor needs.
On that count, the authorities said it has been palmy truthful far.
The opposition, however, said the answers provided astatine the gathering by the authorities were "unsatisfactory" and demanded that a statement beryllium held connected the West Asia concern successful some Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
