Congress distances itself from leader’s suggestion that China is not the enemy amid BJP backlash

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’25) – A comment by an Indian National Congress (INC) leader which suggested Feb 17 that China be not assumed as the enemy has sparked a controversy, leading the party to distance itself from it after strong backlash from the ruling BJP. Congress has also sought to take the BJP to task for its own alleged soft corner for China.

Indian Overseas Congress chairman Sam Pitroda had, in an interview with the IANS news service Feb 17, claimed that New Delhi’s approach to China has been “confrontational” and that mindset needed to change. His remarks came despite the fact that his party leader Rahul Gandhi had assertion in parliament that India had lost a part of its...

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