India’s act of abstaining from the U.N. vote in the General Assembly on the resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict is quite shameful, member of the Congress Working Committee A.K. Antony has said.
He was speaking at a function organised at the Kerala Pradesh Congress Coommittee headquarters on the occasion of the day of the martyrdom of the former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi here on Tuesday. The occasion was also a commemoration of the birthdays of the former Deputy Prime Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy
The unilateral, partisan approach and policy adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the conflict between Israel and Gaza should be revised. India should go back to the foreign policy that was being followed during the time of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and A.B. Vajpayee. India should stand with the people of Palestine on their demand for a free Palestine nation. Indira Gandhi was the first world leader to formally recognise the Statehood of Palestine and the leader of Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) the late Yasser Arafat, Mr. Antony recalled.
