P Chidambaram's "Somersault" Jab At S Jaishankar Amid Katchatheevu Row
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P Chidambaram's counter-strike came after Dr S Jaishankar doubled down on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charge at the Congress over the Katchatheevu island row.
In a sharp response to Dr S Jaishankar's remarks on the Katchatheevu island row, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram questioned why the foreign minister is "doing a somersault" on the issue. Mr Chidambaram also said that Dr Jaishankar's journey from being a "suave liberal foreign service officer" to "a mouthpiece of the RSS-BJP" will be "recorded in the annals of acrobatic sports". It is true that Fishermen were detained in the last 50 years. Likewise, India has detained many SL fishermenEvery government has negotiated with Sri Lanka and freed our fishermenThis has happened when Mr Jaishankar was a foreign service officer and when he was Foreign… Tit for tat is old. Tweet for Tweet is the new weapon.Will Foreign Minister Mr. Jaishankar please refer to the RTI reply dated 27-1-2015.I believe that Mr Jaishankar was the FM on 27-1-2015.The Reply justified the circumstances under which India acknowledged that a small…
The counter-strike came after Dr Jaishankar today doubled down on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's charge at the Congress over the island row.
Quoting decades-old discussions in Parliament, the minister said the governments led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were indifferent to the island.
