“At a time when the area is witnessing unspeakable violence, humanitarian collapse, and rising instability, India can not afford to stay silent or passive,” the Congress chief famous.
Equally, Congress MP from Wayanad, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally expressed her disappointment at India’s stance on the UN.
“It is a tragic reversal of our anti-colonial legacy.
Actually, not solely are we standing silent as Mr Netanyahu annihilates a whole nation, we’re cheering on as his authorities assaults Iran and assassinates its management in flagrant violation of its sovereignty and full contravention of all worldwide norms,” she stated in a put up on X.
“How can we, as a nation, simply abandon the ideas of our structure, and the values of our freedom wrestle that led the best way for a global enviornment based mostly on peace and humanity?” she requested.
Noting that there is no such thing as a justification for this, she added that true world management calls for the braveness to defend justice, and India has proven this braveness unfailingly previously.
“In a world that’s more and more divisive, we should reclaim our voice for humanity and stand fearlessly for reality and non-violence,” Vadra asserted.
AICC media division head Pawan Khera additionally stated that India’s UN abstention on the Gaza ceasefire comes as “an act of staggering ethical cowardice – a shameful betrayal of our anti-colonial legacy and the values of our personal freedom wrestle”.
He recalled how India as soon as stood tall for Palestine and have become the primary non-Arab state to recognise the Palestine Liberation Group (PLO) in 1974, inviting Yasser Arafat to attend the seventh Non-Aligned Motion (NAM) summit held in New Delhi in 1983 and formally recognised Palestinian statehood in 1988.
“We stood for justice not as technique, however as precept. However immediately, that proud legacy lies in ruins,” he stated.
“The abstention can also be a craven U-turn from India’s December 2024 vote within the favour of a everlasting ceasefire in Gaza, proving that the Modi authorities remembers nothing, stands for nothing, and chases solely photo-ops even when they contain blood-soaked handshakes,” Khera added.
“As Israel units West Asia ablaze – bombing Gaza, the West Financial institution, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and now Iran – Modi’s complicity has deserted India’s conscience.
