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New Delhi: An India-Pakistan agreement about sharing information about military movement—signed by the Chandrashekhar-led government in 1991 and enforced by the Narasimha Rao-led government in 1994—has become the center of a fresh political row, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party terming the agreement as “deshdroh” or treason. Chandrashekhar’s son, Neeraj Shekhar, is currently a BJP leader, and the Narendra Modi-led government also conferred the Bharat Ratna on Narasimha Rao last year, but the BJP is trying to make a larger argument by harking back to the agreement. The political storm erupted after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey launched a blistering attack on the Congress party. “The Congress, in 1991, supported the Chandrashekhar government that backed the pact. Later, the Congress-led Na...

New Delhi: The Congress Monday launched a fresh attack on External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, alleging that he “committed treason” by acting as an “informant” for Pakistan. The party cited his remarks that New Delhi sent a “message” to Islamabad at the “start” of Operation Sindoor that it would target only its terrorist infrastructure and not the military. Jaishankar is the latest in a long line of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders who have acted similarly in the past, the Congress said, claiming that former prime minister Morarji Desai belonged to the same category. Desai, a prominent Congress leader until his fallout with Indira Gandhi, was the first non-Congress prime minister of India as part of the Janata alliance, which later became the Janata Party, in 1977. Lok Sabha Leader of ...

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