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Govt must hold talks on foreign policy: Congress in Lok Sabha

Chowdhury said that "India has reached the last phase of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's governance. So, a detailed discussion should be held on external affairs in the House".

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Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Express File Photo)

2 min readNew DelhiDec 12, 2023 06:27 AM IST First published on: Dec 12, 2023 at 03:32 AM IST

Attacking the government during the Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, the Congress on Monday demanded a discussion on the country’s foreign policy.

Raising the issue, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, “Several questions have been raised about the country’s foreign policy… Consider this, elections were conducted in Maldives, where people who had raised slogans like ‘Bharat ko bahar rakho’, ‘Bharat ko hatao’ (keep India out, send India back) — have won the elections. This has happened in Maldives. We should pay attention to this, because this is a strategic island… China is taking over steadily.”

Chaudhury also flagged the issue of eight Navy officials who have recently been sentenced to death by a court in Qatar. “What is the government doing, we do not know,” he added.