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Taking a swipe astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress connected Monday (March 23, 2026) asked wherefore the “self-styled Vishwaguru” is not advancing the BRICS+ Summit that India is acceptable to big this year to enactment unneurotic a diplomatic inaugural to woody with the situation successful West Asia.
The Opposition enactment besides claimed that Mr. Modi does not privation to “antagonise” U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Congress wide caput successful complaint of communications, Jairam Ramesh, pointed retired that the 18th yearly BRICS+ Summit volition instrumentality spot successful New Delhi nether India's Presidency aboriginal this year, with Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the UAE arsenic members.
“Why is the self-styled Vishwaguru not advancing the Summit to enactment unneurotic a diplomatic inaugural to woody with the situation successful West Asia and its impacts? Clearly, helium does not privation to antagonise President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu,” Mr. Ramesh said connected X.
Congress connected result of BRICS summit
“Mr Modi has reportedly been making telephone calls to overseas leaders to sermon the West Asia situation. This mode of connection has its limitations – nary hugs, and nary finger-waving, gyaan-giving photo-ops for our El Supremo. But Summits tin beryllium much productive and effect successful factual steps isolated from invaluable face-to-face confabulations,” the Congress person said.
The G20 this twelvemonth is headed by the U.S., and it volition not effect successful thing consequential different than much rants and taunts by the U.S. President, Mr. Ramesh claimed.
The Congress past week lashed retired astatine the authorities for not releasing a corporate connection connected the West Asia struggle arsenic the BRICS+ Chair, saying Prime Minister Modi is “diminishing” the lasting of the grouping's presidency successful his tendency to “appease” Mr. Trump and support his “cosy relationship” with Mr. Netanyahu.
On Saturday (March 21, 2026), the Congress said the Modi government's nonaccomplishment to condemn the U.S.-Israel aerial battle connected Iran and unit a brutal authorities alteration successful Iran reflected the “moral cowardice” and “political betrayal” of India's civilisational values.
Mr. Ramesh had said that Mr. Modi besides did not usage his much-claimed relationship with Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu to bring astir a cease-fire.
The implicit three-week warfare has shown nary signs of abating, with Israel saying Iran continued to occurrence missiles astatine it aboriginal connected Saturday, portion Saudi Arabia said it downed 20 drones successful conscionable a mates of hours successful the country's eastbound region, which is location to large lipid installations.
Iran has besides fired astatine vigor sites successful the Gulf countries and has present threatened recreational and tourer sites worldwide.
The U.S. is deploying much warships and different 2,500 Marines, 3 weeks into the warfare it launched alongside Israel connected February 28.
