Hours after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar blamed the previous Congress governments for “giving away” the Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka, Opposition leaders hit back by citing a 2015 response of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) that clearly stated the previous agreements did not “involve either acquiring or ceding of territory belonging to India”.
The Opposition leaders asked if the “change of stance” by the Narendra Modi government was related to “election politics”.
“Tit for tat is old. Tweet for Tweet is the new weapon. Will Foreign Minister Mr. Jaishankar please refer to the RTI [Right to Information] reply dated 27-1-2015...The Reply justified the circumstances under which India acknowledged that a small island belonged to Sri Lanka,” former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said in a post on social media platform X.
