PDP president Mehbooba Mufti stated on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to leverage the BRICS summit to reaffirm India’s longstanding commitment to global human rights. This statement highlights concerns regarding India’s diplomatic stance on human rights issues during significant international gatherings.
“The way our prime minister, as the chair of BRICS and as a host, should have spoken, the intensity with which he should have spoken, I feel he shied away. “It (India) has always taken pride in having an independent foreign policy, non-alignment, since Jawaharlal Nehru’s time. “We got the chair but our mouth was shut. Mehbooba welcomed the Delhi Declaration of the BRICS summit in which the Pahalgam attack was condemned and a strong statement was made on the happenings in West Asia. “The BRICS was such a platform where our country, our prime minister should have spoken forcefully about it, rather he should have initiated the declaration, he should have been on the forefront.
However, we didn’t say anything from our side about Gaza where 20,000-22,000 innocent children were martyred. After that the leadership in Iran was martyred, some 150 school girls were killed inside a school.
He chose his words very very cautiously,” she told reporters here. There was no word from our side,” the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir said. Also Read I Chinese President Xi Jinping skips BRICS gala dinner hosted by PM Modi Mehbooba said India lagged in taking the lead the BRICS summit. Somewhere we have lacked, somewhere we are compromising many of our values, our country’s principles,” she said. The PDP president said while the world is loving towards a multi-polar world order, New Delhi is still stuck in the superpower syndrome.
