External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar gave a powerful speech while leading the Operation Sindoor discussion in the Parliament amid heavy sloganeering and uproar by Opposition. Reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s claim that Pakistan and China are working is a nexus against India, the minister said that the two countries are in a tango as the UPA government gave up Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

The minister took a ‘China guru’ jibe at the Congress for repeatedly making claims on China and Pakistan and highlighted how the country is today paying for the mistakes made during the UPA rule.

While speaking during the Monsoon session of Parliament yesterday, Rahul claimed that while India thought it was fighting Pakistan, it was, actually fighting China.

“A few days back I said this in the House and they laughed at me. I said that India’s biggest foreign policy challenge has been to keep Pakistan and China separated… But we failed, and they have destroyed the Indian foreign policy. The Indian government thought that they were fighting Pakistan, and when they arrived, they realised that they were fighting Pakistan and China,” he said.

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