India’s NSG bid failed, Congress blames PM Modi

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Tearing apart claims of the government and the BJP that PM’s just concluded tour to several countries including US as a big strategic and diplomatic success, he dismissed as a “big zero” the sum total of the foreign visits and foreign policy initiatives.

“Never ever in the past almost three decades, China has taken such an absolutely hostile position to India whether on the question of the Nuclear Suppliers Group or even getting the Jaish-e-Mohd and Maulana Masood Azhar labeled as terrorist entity”, Tewari said.

He said China “has never been so belligerent in the past 29 years”. “China is extremely crucial and has a sensitive relationship with India but has never been so belligerent in the past 29 years ever since late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi broke the ice with China in 1987”, he said.

Reports from Vienna had it that with the US pushing its case, India’s bid for membership of the elite 48-member grouping has received positive indications from most of the member countries but China was still playing the spoiler by persisting with its opposition.