PM’s ‘Ab ki baar Trump sarkar’ slogan was avoidable: Congress

NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday accused PM Narendra Modi of violating Indian foreign policy’s “time-honoured principle” of not interfering in the domestic elections of another country by “actively campaigning” for US President Donald Trump at the ‘Howdy Modi’ event in Houston on Sunday.
Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said India should not have been seen taking sides and claimed Modi using the Houston platform to raise the slogan of “Ab ki baar Trump sarkar” was avoidable and a “disservice” to this time-honoured principle.
“We have a strategic partnership between India and the US which is bipartisan, which we fully endorse... There is a time-honoured convention of India’s foreign policy that when we engage with foreign governments or the president or prime minister when on foreign soil, we do not take part in domestic electoral politics. The PM should have honoured that,” Sharma said.