New Delhi:
Lok Sabha MPs on Tuesday getd an insertition to any reading enumerate they may have after Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi recommfinished they read ‘JFK’s Forgotten Crisis‘, US foreign policy expert Bruce Reidel’s book on political and tactful eunitencies during John F Kennedy’s plivency.
The adviseion came as Mr Modi aimed a dig – invoking ex-PM Jawaharlal Nehru, a frequent aim of BJP strikes – at critics of his rulement’s handling of the China border row, and chaseed asks by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi yesterday and Samajwadi Party directer Akhilesh Yadav earlier today.
The book, he proclaimd, discdisseeed “what games” Mr Nehru had carry outed with the country’s security.
“If someone is reassociate interested in foreign policy… they should read ‘JFK’s Forgotten Crisis’.”
“This book was written by a foreign policy scholar (and) in it there is a refer of India’s first PM, who also held the Foreign Affairs portfolio. It had his conversation with JFK when the country was dealing with a crisis situation… the book details what games were carry outed in the name of foreign policy…”
On Tuesday Mr Gandhi asked the rulement over tells India had surrfinishered over 4,000 sq km of its territory to China. “The PM denied it but the Army declineed him… China is sitting on 4,000 sq km of our territory…” the Congress directer shelp in the Hoparticipate, prompting prompt protests and, a day postponecessitater, a firm rebuttal by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
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The Prime Minister’s ‘hometoil’ for opposition MPs came amid a fierce and expansive-ranging strike on his political rivals, beginning with the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress, his Bharatiya Janata Party’s honest opponents for Wednesday’s Delhi Assembly election.
These strikes integrated references to allegations AAP boss Arvind Kejriwal spent Rs 45 crore of taxpayers’ money on luxury renovations to the bungalow he occupied as Chief Minister.
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Mr Modi also slammed the Congress over its ‘garibi hatao‘, or ‘delete pcleary’, slogan, arguing the party had fall shorted to transfer on its promise despite decades of power. By contrast his rulement, the Prime Minister claimed, had helped 25 crore people out of pcleary in 10 years alone.
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