TIL Desk/National/Ahmedabad/ Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad today said Congress president-elect Rahul Gandhi should disclose if former prime minister Manmohan Singh met a Pakistani delegation earlier this month after informing him.
He also asked whether Singh had consulted the Ministry of External Affairs on the same. The Union law minister also wanted to know the Congress’ stand on the proposed triple talaq law, and asked Gandhi whether a Ram temple should be built in Ayodhya.
“When we have a national line that India will not talk to Pakistan until the latter abandons terrorism, why did former prime minister Manmohan Singh go to meet a Pakistani delegation?” Prasad.
He said in 2007, in Havana, when Singh was the prime minister, a joint statement had said that Pakistan was also a victim of terrorism when everyone knew that Pakistan was “not a victim but a sponsor of terrorism”.
He recalled that in Sharm El Sheikh joint declaration in 2010, Balochistan was referred to and it said India had a hand in the disturbance there.”In this light, if a question is asked why Singh met Pakistani delegation when the country’s line on talks with the neighbouring country is clear, what is wrong with it (in questioning the meeting),” Prasad said.
“The BJP would like to know if Manmohan Singh went to meet the Pakistani delegation, with the presence of high commissioner of that country, with due consultation with the External Affairs Ministry and with due information to Rahul Gandhi,” he said.
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