Biggest diplomatic blunder: Cong

NEW DELHI: Demanding answers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress on Wednesday termed the EU MPS visit to Kashmir the “biggest diplomatic blunder” in India’s history. It said the government had deliberately internationalised the issue.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the BJP government continues to humiliate India on a global scale by allowing internationalisation of the Kashmir issue in violation of the time-tested policy that it is India’s internal matter.

NEW DELHI: Amid the reports that Congress' former president Rahul Gandhi has left for abroad, the grand old party has decided to hold nationwide protests against the Modi government over economic slowdown in the country from November 5 to November 15.

However, as per party insiders, Gandhi would return to India in first week of November.

“The party will raise issues surrounding the regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP), current economic crisis, mounting unemployment, spiraling price rise, bank frauds, job losses in public and private sectors, and farm distress,” Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said in a statement.

The protests will first be held across the state capitals and will culminate in a massive protest in Delhi in November-end. All statelevel party workers, state presidents, Congress Legislative Party leaders and senior AICC functionaries would take part in the agitation.

“Congress party workers and its volunteers will raise the voice of the people and try to make this insensitive Central government accountable for the countless miseries and sufferings that it is causing,” Venugopal said in his statement.

In this regard, Congress president Sonia Gandhi would chair a meeting of AICC general secretaries, state in-charges, heads of frontal organisations and departments on November 2. The party has deputed a total of 31 senior Congress leaders and observers across states/ UTS to monitor the agitation.