Accusing the Congress of speaking in favour of Pakistan on several issues, the BJP on Saturday said that the Pakistani-origin lawyer, representing Pakistan in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), had been hired by the UPA Government in 2004 to argue an arbitration case in a power project.
Speaking to newspersons here, BJP spokesperson GVl Narsimha Rao said the Congress party should explain why its Government hired Khawar Qureshi in the ‘very sensitive’ Enron case in 2004.
The Congress-led UPA Government had changed the legal team representing India in the arbitration case against the US firm over the controversial Dabhol power project, he said. This was a question linked to ‘patriotism’, Rao said. “What was the compulsion that the UPA Government hired QureshiIJ... Over the last few years we have seen several incidents of the Congress speaking in support of Pakistan. It was speaking in Pakistan's voice on the surgical strikes as well,” the BJP leader said.