Cong questions Modi’s silence on key issues

Challenges resumption of talks with Pak, asks govt how the situation has changed.

Questioning Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s silence on key issues, the Congress took potshots at him on Friday asking if he had exhausted his talk in the poll campaign. The party came down heavily on Modi for not “walking the talk” on Pakistan and questioned the rationale behind his government’s decision to send the Foreign Secretary for talks with her Pakistan counterpart.

Former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid asked the government to explain how the situation has changed. “What has improved? What is the rationale for sending foreign secretary to Pakistan… The government has to come out and clearly state the change in situation between then and now,” he said.

He said the UPA government had taken a consistent position on the resumption of talks with Pakistan. “We did not go back to the composite dialogue. We did not even go back to the resumed dialogue. We only said at best we will have some points of contact, informal or partly formal, to figure out whether it is possible to move back into some form of dialogue. If we are to move back to some form of he dialogue we must first have some deliverables,” he said.

Khurshid also took a dig at Modi for his silence on key issues. “I am beginning to wonder if the PM thinks he had a quota of how much he can speak and that he had used it up during the elections. Therefore, he doesn’t have anything left. I think as Prime Minister, all the advice he was giving to us, he should continue to give to himself. He should be more available, more transparent, and certainly he should speak more.”.

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