CPI(M) on Friday accused BJP of taking “regressive and jingoistic” stand on several foreign policy issues and for rousing “chauvinist” feelings to create confrontation with Pakistan and China.
“The thrust of the BJP’s stand is to create a confrontation with Pakistan and China and to rouse national chauvinist feelings against these two countries,” party General Secretary Prakash Karat said.
Charging the main opposition party with “taking a series of regressive and jingoistic positions on foreign policy issues and on relations with our neighbouring countries,” he said “we cannot find any criticism of the Manmohan Singh Government’s pro-US foreign policy positions.”
BJP “still stands for what the late Brajesh Mishra termed as the US-Israel-India axis.
It is this reactionary world view that informs the BJP’s foreign policy outlook which goes against India’s anti-imperialist traditions and that is contrary to an independent and non- aligned foreign policy,” Karat said in an article in the latest issue of CPI(M) organ ‘People’s Democracy’.