Questioning why External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar did not unequivocally condemn the parade in Canada that celebrated the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the Congress on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should speak to his Canadian counterpart and convey that such acts were ‘unacceptable’ to India.
The principal Opposition party asked why Mr. Modi had not spoken to his Canadian counterpart after the viral images of a tableau/float that depicted the assassination at a parade in Brampton recently.
Asked to respond at a press conference earlier in the day, Mr. Jaishankar said that the issue was not “good for relationships” but went to raise the larger underlying issue of a country giving space to separatists and extremists who advocated violence.
