Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar made an enormous cost on Monday involving former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru over the Katchatheeevu island row. Inferring from Nehru’s views on the island, the Union minister mentioned that for the previous Prime Minister, the Katchatheevu islands had no significance and noticed it as a “nuisance”.
Studying out Nehru’s opinion, Jaishankar mentioned, ” I connect no significance in any respect to this little island and I might haven’t any hesitation in giving up our declare to it. I don’t like matter pending like this indefinitely and being raised repeatedly in Parliament.”
Drawing conclusion from the quote, the BJP chief mentioned, “To Pandit Nehru this was a little bit island, it had no significance, he noticed it as a nuisance. For him the earlier you give it away, the higher…”
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Jaishankar cahrged that the view was not restricted to Nehru however continued on to Indira Gandhi as properly. He additionally learn out former Tamil Nadu MP G Viswanathan’s assertion relating to Indira Gandhi’s views on the island: “We’re fearful about Diego Garcia, hundreds of miles away from the Indian territory, however we aren’t fearful about this small island. The PM (Indira Gandhi) is alleged to have remarked within the AICC assembly that this can be a little rock.”
The Union minister mentioned that the “dismissive perspective” was not simply of 1 PM however “was the historic Congress perspective in direction of Katchatheevu…”
He additionally educated weapons on Congress and Dravida Munnetra Kazagham over the row saying the 2 events approached the problem as if they bear no accountability. Addressing a press convention, Jaishankar defined the “relevance” of the problem, which comes within the run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.