Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru
With Inputs from Media Release
Mangaluru, Apr 9: P V Mohan, AICC member, has expressed his dismay over the decision of the present Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Israel, which 'no Prime Minister so far in the past has done'.
"It is really unfortunate. The Prime Minister’s visit to Israel will be disastrous for India. The idea of India which was built by Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru will be severely damaged by the foreign policy of the present government. The deviation of India's policy is going to have adverse effects both domestically and overseas."
In a press statement released on Sunday April 9, he said, "India was never a supporter of Israel. India voted against Israel's induction into the United Nations. Israel is an occupier. India's support to Palestine has a history. India supports inalienable rights of the Palestinians people. India had always taken up anti-colonial struggles. India was one of the first nations to recognize Palestine's cause and it was the first non-Arab state to recognise the Palestinian Liberation Organisation as the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in 1974.
"India should have realized that we get the bulk of our energy from the Arab world, millions of Indians work in Middle East and they send billions in remittance. The Arabs have been an ally for several causes for which India as a country stood and fought for. There have been many occasions when the Arabs came to the rescue of our country as an ally. One cannot forget the non-allied policy which Jawaharlal Nehru led for the world and Indira Gandhi cemented it further. One cannot forget Col Abdul Nazer of the then Egypt disallowing any Portuguese ship to negotiate through Suez Canal to attack Goa when it was getting liberated. One cannot forget the thousands of Indians working in Arab countries who are generally treated well. One cannot forget the present times when Trump is trying to block Indians working in the US, thanklessly indeed, for all the work that the Indians have done in the last two decades for the development of American Information Technology," he said.
"In fact, an Arab backlash can be unthinkable and miserable in comparison with an American backlash by Trump in the field of employment of Indians. Therefore, it is necessary that all right-thinking people warn the Prime Minister, rather express a demand on the Prime Minister to give up the idea of visiting Israel. One only hopes the Prime Minister will not do hara-kiri for the country," he concluded.