Former Finance Minister and senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Monday slammed Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar over the latter’s remarks on the ongoing Katchatheevu island row. Taking to X, Chidambaram mentioned that individuals can “change colors” rapidly in a dig at Jaishankar. “Tit for tat is previous. Tweet for tweet is the brand new weapon,” the Congress veteran wrote on the micro-blogging web site.
The Katchatheevu island row began following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s feedback on Sunday, during which he attacked the Congress over its decision to hand over the strategic island to Sri Lanka in the 1970s.
Chidambaram’s remarks got here hours after Jaishankar criticised the DMK and Congress on Monday, saying the 2 events approached the island situation “as if they haven’t any accountability for it”.
“Will international minister Mr Jaishankar please seek advice from the RTI reply dated 27-1-2015. I imagine that Mr Jaishankar was the FM on 27-1-2015. The Reply justified the circumstances underneath which India acknowledged {that a} small island belonged to Sri Lanka. Why is the International Minister and his ministry doing a somersault now? How rapidly can folks change colors,” the Congress chief tweeted.
Amping up his assault on Jaishankar, Chidambaram known as the previous a “suave liberal international service officer” who went on to change into a “good international secretary” to a “mouthpiece of the RSS-BJP”. “Life and occasions of Mr Jaishankar can be recorded within the annals of acrobatic sports activities,” Chidambaram tweeted.
Addressing a press briefing in Delhi earlier within the day, Jaishankar mentioned that within the final 20 years, as many as 6,184 Indian fishermen have been detained by Sri Lanka and 1,175 Indian fishing vessels have been seized, detained or apprehended. “That is the background of the problem that we’re discussing”.
“Within the final 5 years, the Katchatheevu situation and the fisherman’s situation have been repeatedly raised by numerous events in Parliament. It has come up in parliament questions, debates and within the consultative committee. The then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has written to me quite a few occasions. And my document reveals that to the present Chief Minister, I’ve replied 21 occasions on this situation. This isn’t a difficulty which has out of the blue surfaced. It is a stay situation,” the Exterior Affairs Minister added.
Jaishankar claimed that “we all know who did this, what we do not know is who hid it. We imagine that the general public has the correct to understand how this case got here up”.
PM Modi additionally doubled down on his assaults in opposition to the DMK with a recent tweet on Monday whereby he mentioned that new particulars on the Katchatheevu island situation “have unmasked DMK’s double requirements completely”.
