Cong's can't trust own EAM, it trusts some other country: Amit Shah
Amit Shah
while making his intervention in the Lok Sabha on Monday slammed the Congress for not trusting the statement of external affairs minister
S Jaishankar
on
Operation Sindoor
and instead believing the US President
Donald Trump
, and said that is why it is sitting in the opposition and will remain there for 20 more years.
Shah intervened when the Opposition members were interrupting Jaishankar. "They (opposition) do not have faith in the minister of external affairs who has taken oath as a member of the Indian govt. They trust some other country. I know the importance of foreign (opinion) in their party, but it does not mean that they should impose this view on Parliament," said Shah.
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