Boycott this 'baraat': Sanjay Raut slams delegation diplomacy on Op Sindoor

Shiv Sena (UBT) person Sanjay Raut connected Sunday questioned the request to send parliamentarians overseas to little different countries astir Operation Sindoor and India’s subject escalation with Pakistan, likening the determination to a “baraat,” oregon groom’s wedding procession.

The authorities has decided to nonstop 7 delegations comprising MPs from assorted parties to respective countries starting aboriginal this month, to explicate India’s presumption successful the caller struggle and to equine diplomatic unit connected Islamabad, accusing it of harbouring cross-border terrorism.

“There was nary request to nonstop this baraat. The Prime Minister is weak. There was nary request to unreserved this. What volition the lad of the Deputy CM (MP Shrikant Shinde, lad of Eknath Shinde) correspond abroad?” Raut asked, adding, “The BJP has politicised this; they person a wont of doing authorities successful everything. The India bloc should boycott this baraat.”

Fifty-one governmental leaders, parliamentarians, and erstwhile ministers cutting crossed enactment lines volition beryllium portion of the seven delegations travelling to satellite capitals to contiguous India’s resoluteness to tackle coercion successful the backdrop of Operation Sindoor. Notable names among them see Congress’s Shashi Tharoor, AIMIM main Asaduddin Owaisi, NCP (SP) person Supriya Sule, and DMK’s Kanimozhi, among others.

Sanjay Raut's enactment workfellow Priyanka Chaturvedi is besides portion of a delegation successful the government’s outreach. She volition beryllium joining a radical led by BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad, which besides includes Daggubati Purandeswari (BJP), Ghulam Ali Khatana, Amar Singh (Congress), Samik Bhattacharya (BJP), MJ Akbar, and Pankaj Saran. The delegation is apt to sojourn the UK, France, Germany, the EU, Italy, and Denmark.

Of the 51 governmental leaders included, 31 beryllium to the ruling NDA, portion the remaining 20 are from non-NDA parties. All 7 delegations diagnostic astatine slightest 1 Muslim representative, either among the politicians oregon diplomats.

Apart from Shashi Tharoor, Congress leaders Manish Tewari, Amar Singh, and Salman Khurshid are portion of the delegations. The teams besides see erstwhile Union Ministers Ghulam Nabi Azad, MJ Akbar, Anand Sharma, V Muraleedharan, Khurshid, and SS Ahluwalia — nary of whom are presently Members of Parliament.

Only 1 of the 4 Congress leaders recommended by the enactment -- Anand Sharma -- was included successful the delegations, portion the authorities selected Shashi Tharoor independently. This has sparked a governmental row. Congress wide caput successful complaint of communications, Jairam Ramesh, said successful a connection that the determination reflects the Narendra Modi government’s "complete insincerity" and exposes the "cheap governmental games" it plays connected matters of nationalist importance.

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