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STARK REALITY
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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Feb 13: The entire media yesterday laughed at, ridiculed and taunted Foreign Minister S M Krishna and charged him with letting down India in the eyes of the international community. The reason: Krishna, instead of reading out from the prepared statement or making a speech extempore as Foreign Minister of India, read out the speech of Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado at a United Nations Security Council. He had gone to participate in a debate on security and development.
He read out the wrong speech for as many as three minutes and, inter alia, said: "On a more personal note, allow me to express my profound satisfaction regarding the happy coincidence of having two members of the Portuguese speaking countries (CPLP), Brazil and Portugal, together here today." It was only when the Indian envoy to the United Nations Hardeep Singh Puri told Krishna that he had been reading out the Portuguese Foreign Minister’s speech that the Indian Foreign Minister corrected himself, thus embarrassing the whole of the country. The Portuguese Foreign Minister had already spoken. It was this that has been termed by media as a faux pas committed by the Indian Foreign Minister. The BJP has described the Krishna’s gaffe as an insult to the Indian nation.
What the question to be asked is: When did Krishna represent India outside India? He has never represented India? In fact, he has always let down India at every international forum he went to? No, he has always damaged the Indian cause in and outside India. He never contested the Beijing’s stand on Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh and on some other parts of the Himalayan region in the manner he should have. He has never ever taken on Beijing for the activities it has been indulging in the Aksai Chin area in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, which is legitimately Indian. And, what about the stapled visa issue? Has he done anything whatever in this regard? He has done nothing and allowed Beijing to ride roughshod.
And, has he ever defended the Indian stand on the Indian Jammu and Kashmir? No, he has never defended the Indian case. Rather, he has weakened the Indian case. Just look at what he did in Islamabad and New Delhi in July 2010 and you would draw a logical conclusion. At Islamabad, his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi insulted him and India by drawing a parallel between the Union Home Secretary G K Pillai and dreaded Lashkar chief or chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawa Hafiz Saeed, who was responsible for the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, and publicly accused Pillai of vitiating the atmosphere on the eve of the Foreign Minister-level talks between India and Pakistan. Krishna didn’t react. He allowed Qureshi to spew venom on India. And, when he returned to New Delhi after bringing disgrace to the Indian nation, he denounced Pillai, saying it was not Pakistan but the Indian Home Secretary who was responsible for the failure of the Islamabad meet. He made India a laughing stock. He also harmed India when he hailed the Foreign Secretary-level talks, held in Thimpu last Sunday – talk that upheld the Pakistani standpoint: Terrorism and talks can go hand-in-hand.
And, what did Krishna do when Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made a statement on the floor of the assembly in October 2010 that Jammu and Kashmir had only acceded and not merged with India? Or, what did he do when the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister virtually challenged the very accession of the state to India? Krishna, like the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, defended the Chief Minister to the hilt and said there was nothing wrong in what the Chief Minister had said. In fact, he sought to equate Jammu and Kashmir with Mysore and asserted that the position of Jammu and Kashmir and Mysore was identical. He told media persons: “Whatever the Chief Minister said was correct.”
The fact of the matter is that Krishna is not an asset. He has repeatedly brought disgrace to India. He doesn’t know what he says. The Indian foreign policy under him has been in a shambles. No one takes him serious. Every country takes him for a ride. That’s the reason India is today surrounded from all sides by hostile elements. Not a single neighbouring country is with India. On the contrary, Beijing and Pakistan are working in tandem to harm India and China is making deep inroads in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan and the objective is the same: Harm India. And, what has he done in Afghanistan? It is time for Krishna to quit and go back to Mysore. No, it’s time for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to put a right man in the Indian Foreign Office. But, again, the question is: Will he be allowed to do so or will he do so? A very difficult question indeed!
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