India not getting invite for G7 summit is another diplomatic bungle, claims Congress
In a social media post on X, Congress general secretary, communications, Jairam Ramesh said the G7 Summit is taking place in Alberta, Canada, from June 15 in which the Presidents of the U.S. and France, the Prime Ministers of the U.K., Japan, Italy and Canada and the Chancellor of Germany are participating. The Presidents of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Australia have also been invited to the summit, he added.
'Before 2014, G7 was actually G8 for many years and had included Russia. Dr. Manmohan Singh would be invited for G8 Summits where his voice would be heard. It was at one such summit in Germany in June 2007 where the famous Singh-Merkel formula for climate change negotiations had been unveiled,' Mr. Ramesh said in a post.
He added that the tradition of inviting Indian Prime Ministers continued after 2014. 'But now, for the first time in 6 years, 'Vishwaguru' will not be in attendance at the Canada summit. Whatever spin may be given, the fact remains that this is yet another big diplomatic bungle - after the blunder of allowing the US to overturn decades of Indian foreign policy by mediating between India and Pakistan and allowing American authorities to call for continued talks at a 'neutral site',' the Congress leader noted.
So far, Canada is yet to send an invitation to New Delhi for the summit, but sources claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in any case, would have skipped as a lot of groundwork is required to repair the relations between the two countries. The India-Canada relations had hit rock bottom following the then Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's allegations in 2023 of a potential Indian link to the killing of pro-Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
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