Hyderabad: Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Wednesday, November 11, said the party has specific differences with the foreign policy propounded by the BJP-led NDA government, alleging it lacks ethics, values, and enlightenment.
Khurshid, head of the party’s Foreign Affairs department, said the Bharat Summit to be held in Hyderabad on November 13 and 14 aims to present the party’s vision for global relations.
“Of course, we have our own very specific differences with the foreign policy that the present government has propounded in recent years,” the former Union Minister told reporters here.
He added that the party’s foreign policy perspective is deeply rooted in the idea of Non-Alignment, which Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and Rajiv Gandhi gave us and to the world.
“The wide vision of inclusiveness and growth, development and dignity for human beings is part of our foreign policy. Ethics, values, and enlightenment were important parts of our foreign policy and we find that’s been lacking,” he said.
He, however, did not elaborate.
Khurshid said the Congress is well placed to host the event against the backdrop of a direct confrontation between the extreme-right that it rejects and the liberal world, which is represented by progressive movements and parties across the globe.
The summit, he hoped, will become a permanent feature.
Amid an evolving geopolitical situation, the Congress will host political leaders, policymakers, academics, business representatives and civil society members from 70 countries for deliberations on the emergence of a new global order and India’s strategic responses to the developments, besides issues like cooperative federalism and electoral integrity.
Khurshid had on Tuesday said that the Bharat Summit will bring together around 1,000 delegates from across the world and the areas of focus include the formation of a new think tank, “Our World”.
‘Bharat Summit 2025’ was held in Hyderabad in April last year.
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Source: The Siasat Daily
