UPA foreign policy is going wrong: BJP

He said India committed mistakes in the election for the post of UN Secretary-General at the very outset. He said as a major country, India should have done advance networking with major powers because none of them were nominating its candidate.

When reminded that former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had endorsed Tharoor8217;s candidature and extended his good wishes to him, the BJP spokesman said: 8220;We are not critical of his candidature, we are critical of the manner in which the election was handled8230; It must be noted that the US did not favour India even after the bonhomie which followed the nuclear treaty.8221;

Sitoula, he pointed out, was scheduled to sign the new extradition treaty with India. The issue is important in the light of the fact that ISI operatives are using Nepal for terrorist activities against India.