BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi attacks Congress, says he is doing vote bank politics – Firstpost

The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of being guided by petty and vote-bank politics in its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict and asked when was the last time its top leader wrote to the media about a international conflict.

BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi’s scathing attack on the Congress came after its former president, Sonia Gandhi, said in a newspaper article that her party was “firmly opposed” to abstaining from the Congress. India on the recent UN resolution which called for a humanitarian truce amid the crisis in Gaza and the massive Israeli army. attack on the small territory.

Government sources said the absence of any mention of the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7 in the resolution was the reason for India’s abstention as there can be no equivocation on terrorism .

Gandhi criticized the government’s decision and said “humanity is now on trial”, while calling on the loudest and most powerful voices to demand a cessation of military activity.

Responding to the Congress, Trivedi told a press conference that there could be no policy on terrorism and international issues. There should be no room for ifs and buts when it comes to terrorism and India’s position should be clear, categorical and unequivocal, he said.

When was the last time Congress’s top leader wrote about an international conflict, he asked.

“It is unfortunate that the Congress policy is not in keeping with the prestige and dignity of India, but is inspired by petty vote bank politics. Whatever the Congress does, it is against India policy,” he asserted.

Even indirect support for terrorism is detrimental to humanity and the security and interests of India, he said, criticizing the Congress.

Trivedi said it was during the era of the Rajiv Gandhi government that the foundation was laid for strengthening diplomatic relations with Israel before the PV Narasimha Rao-led regime established full diplomatic relations between the two countries.

As the then opposition leader, Atal Bihar Vajpayee had visited the UN to express India’s stand on a host of issues and spoke with the government in one voice of the time headed by Rao, Trivedi noted.

He asserted that there has been no change in the government’s policy on the Palestinian issue as India favors a two-state solution through peaceful means.

Noting that a Congress Working Committee resolution had made no mention of the Hamas attack, he questioned whether the party’s slogan was “Judega Kattarpanthi, Jeetega Hamas,” modeled after “Judega Bharat, Jeetega India”, the slogan of the opposition bloc INDIA.