The Congress Thursday mounted a strident attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over relationship with Pakistan and asked him to “stop embarrassing India” as it advocated a “wait and watch” policy regarding talks with the neighbouring country in the wake of Pathankot terror attack.
Alleging that the Modi government has mastered the art of taking “unauthorised U-turns”, party spokesperson Kapil Sibal ridiculed its functioning saying the government was “not realising that such U-turns only lead to accidents”.
“That is why Pathankot has become Pareshan‘kot’ (disturbed),” he said.
Taking potshots at the Prime Minister over his surprise visit to Lahore some time back and other steps on foreign policy, Mr Sibal said Modi is trying to “make history without learning from history”.
“Instead of trying to make history, Modi should learn from it. Once bitten twice shy is an age-old adage. We have been bitten not once but several times and yet the immature handling of Pakistan has belittled the stature of the office Mr Modi holds. The mindless wooing of Pakistan is bound to result in betrayal.”
Recalling that Mr Modi met his Pakistani counterpart in Ufa, in Paris and a third time in Lahore as a willing invitee to Nawaz Sharif’s birthday, Mr Sibal said taht “acceptance of such an informal invitation without any preparatory homework is unbecoming of a PM”.
