‘Nehru was against America’: Jaishankar on foreign policies under Congress govt in 1950s
Hindustan TimesExternal affairs minister S Jaishankar, at a summit on Wednesday, comparing the governance under former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and PM Narendra Modi said that India needed to “get out of the cult worship where anything from 1946 till pick-your-year were great years and everything went splendidly, everything that went wrong other people were to blame”. Companies are audited, after all, countries should also be audited, policies should be audited and people must look at the past with an open and critical mind.” Lauding PM Modi's foreign relations, Jaishankar said “Modi ki guarantee” works just as well abroad as in India. “When I go out and explain foreign policy I would say Modi ki guarantee works outside as much as it works back home.You know the Modi ki guarantee also applies that we keep petrol prices at a reasonable price by not bowing down to political pressure.” “As people's basic necessity is met, there is a new thought pervading the middle-class. When questioned about the Citizenship Amendment Act and addressing criticism from Western countries, Jaishankar stated, “This is an issue of correcting a certain situation of our history.” The foreign minister added, “It is a question of being just, of being fair to those people who were caught on the wrong side of history at the time when partition happened… If you look at the predicament of these people, these are stateless people who are stateless because of no fault of theirs.
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