Via PTI
NEW DELHI: High Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday blamed the Congress for the partition of India, and in addition stated it used to be the Indira Gandhi executive that gave the Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka in 1974.
The island, positioned between Rameswaram (India) and Sri Lanka, used to be historically utilized by each Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen.
In 1974, then High Minister Indira Gandhi permitted Katchatheevu as Sri Lankan territory beneath the “Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime Settlement”.
“Those other folks divided mom India into 3 portions for politics,” the high minister stated in Lok Sabha, launching a blistering assault at the Congress throughout his respond to a debate on a no-confidence movement.
The high minister stated the DMK executive in Tamil Nadu assists in keeping writing to him urging him to convey Katchatheevu again to India.
“Katchatheevu is an island between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Someone gave it to some other nation. It took place beneath the management of Indira Gandhi,” he stated.
“Wasn’t that a part of Maa Bharati there?” Modi requested in an obvious reaction to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s statement throughout the talk on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: High Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday blamed the Congress for the partition of India, and in addition stated it used to be the Indira Gandhi executive that gave the Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka in 1974.
The island, positioned between Rameswaram (India) and Sri Lanka, used to be historically utilized by each Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen.
In 1974, then High Minister Indira Gandhi permitted Katchatheevu as Sri Lankan territory beneath the “Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime Settlement”.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Those other folks divided mom India into 3 portions for politics,” the high minister stated in Lok Sabha, launching a blistering assault at the Congress throughout his respond to a debate on a no-confidence movement.
The high minister stated the DMK executive in Tamil Nadu assists in keeping writing to him urging him to convey Katchatheevu again to India.
“Katchatheevu is an island between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Someone gave it to some other nation. It took place beneath the management of Indira Gandhi,” he stated.
“Wasn’t that a part of Maa Bharati there?” Modi requested in an obvious reaction to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s statement throughout the talk on Wednesday.