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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. (File photo/News18)
Tharoor criticized the government, saying it refuses to take the country into confidence on important foreign policy issues, including what is happening along the LAC with China.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said that the Congress should be very clear in its ideological stand in favor of inclusiveness. India And pointed out that the party could have been more vocal on issues like the Bilkis Bano outrage and the killing in the name of cow protection.
Addressing the party’s 85th plenary session here, the former Union minister said the Congress should stand up for its fundamental principles.
“We must be very clear in our ideological stand in favor of an inclusive India. The tendency to downplay certain positions or avoid taking a stand on certain issues, does not play into the BJP only to alienate what we believe to be the majority sentiment. Is.” Hand,” Tharoor said.
He said, “We should have the courage of our convictions. We could have been more vocal about the Bilkis Bano outrage, attacks on Christian churches, killings in the name of cow vigilantes, bulldozer demolition of Muslim houses and other such issues.”
Tharoor said it is the Indian citizens who look to the party for support.
In August last year, all 11 life convicts in the 2002 Godhra post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case were moved out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its amnesty policy. In which there was resentment from various sections. Congress. He asserted that India belongs to all and if the party does not speak up in such matters, it is only abdicating its core responsibility of standing up for India’s diversity and pluralism which should be central to the core message of the Congress.
He said that every effort should be made to strengthen the secular foundation of the country.
Tharoor said, “The fact is that India’s future is bright as long as the Congress fights the good fight.”
He also lauded the Bharat Jodo Yatra saying that it has revived the confidence of the party cadre.
Tharoor said, ‘From here we should give the message of the Congress couple.’
Speaking on the economic resolution passed on the second day of the three-day plenary, Tharoor said it should outline elements of a progressive economic agenda that confronts the challenge of unacceptable economic inequality.
He asserted, “We want economic growth but we must ensure that the benefits of that growth reach the poor and the downtrodden. India will not shine until it shines for all.”
The former minister of state for foreign affairs and convenor of the party’s sub-group on foreign affairs for the plenum also said that policy has long been seen as an area of national consensus.
Tharoor said, “There was no Congress foreign policy or BJP foreign policy, only Indian foreign policy and Indian national interest. This tradition has been sadly broken by the (Narendra) Modi government.”
Tharoor also criticized the government for refusing to take the country into confidence on important foreign policy issues, including what is happening along the LAC with China.
He said, “It is surprising to hear that our foreign minister says that China is too rich to stand before them. We should demand that the Parliament be taken into confidence, the country should be told that our important foreign policy What is our thinking about the interests of
He insisted that foreign policy must return to being a consensual national effort with bipartisan agreement and support.
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