NEW DELHI : Continuing with its attack on the Manmohan Singh government for the Sharm-El-Sheikh joint statement, BJP on Friday brought the prime minister in its firing line, blaming him for leading India to a position of weakness in its negotiations with Pakistan. Confronted with a barrage of criticism from the entire Opposition, and also from within 
Congress, the government on Friday repeated what it told the Lok Sabha on Thursday — that the Sharm-El-Sheikh joint statement had been buried completely, and there could be no negotiations with Pakistan till it stopped exporting terror. “Any meaningful dialogue with Pakistan can only follow the concrete fulfilment of their commitments not to allow their territory to be used for terrorist activities against India,”external affairs minister S M Krishna told the Rajya Sabha this afternoon in his reply to the debate on his ministry’s working. The government had earlier come under all-round flak for agreeing to the Sharm-El-Sheikh joint statement, described as a “monumental lapse’’ by leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley. Participating in the debate in the Rajya Sabha on the working of the external affairs ministry, the BJP leader charged the prime minister and his team of negotiators with reversing the foreign policy that has consistently been pursued by India so far. He was particularly harsh on the prime minister, accusing him of being “alarmist”. “You try and alarm the country with a new argument that there are only two options available — it’s either a dialogue or a war. The moment the prime minister limits his options to dialogue or war, he brings India to a position of weakness because the other alternative is war. And when you come down to a position of weakness and start negotiating, it is dialogue irrespective of terror,’’ the Opposition leader argued.
Congress, the government on Friday repeated what it told the Lok Sabha on Thursday — that the Sharm-El-Sheikh joint statement had been buried completely, and there could be no negotiations with Pakistan till it stopped exporting terror. “Any meaningful dialogue with Pakistan can only follow the concrete fulfilment of their commitments not to allow their territory to be used for terrorist activities against India,”external affairs minister S M Krishna told the Rajya Sabha this afternoon in his reply to the debate on his ministry’s working. The government had earlier come under all-round flak for agreeing to the Sharm-El-Sheikh joint statement, described as a “monumental lapse’’ by leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley. Participating in the debate in the Rajya Sabha on the working of the external affairs ministry, the BJP leader charged the prime minister and his team of negotiators with reversing the foreign policy that has consistently been pursued by India so far. He was particularly harsh on the prime minister, accusing him of being “alarmist”. “You try and alarm the country with a new argument that there are only two options available — it’s either a dialogue or a war. The moment the prime minister limits his options to dialogue or war, he brings India to a position of weakness because the other alternative is war. And when you come down to a position of weakness and start negotiating, it is dialogue irrespective of terror,’’ the Opposition leader argued.For further details visit as : http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Sharm-ki-baat-keeps-rocking-House/articleshow/4844106.cms
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