New Delhi, March 23 -- Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not condemning the United States and Israel's strikes against Iran and invoking the COVID-19 pandemic while making a statement in Parliament on the West Asia conflict.

Jairam Ramesh termed PM Modi's statement a "master class in self-boasts and partisan dialogue-baazi (dramatic dialogue)."

The Congress MP wrote on X, "The Prime Minister's uncharacteristically short speech in the Lok Sabha today was, as usual, a master class in self-boasts, cowardice, and partisan dialogue-baazi. Not a single word was uttered in condemnation of the continued US-Israeli air assaults on Iran. Iran's attack on the Gulf countries and the Strait of Hormuz is,...