New Delhi, March 3 -- Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, stating that the government's silence on the "targeted assassination of Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is "not neutral but an abdication."

In the opinion editorial (op-ed) piece in The Indian Express, Sonia Gandhi said India's lack of response "signals tacit endorsement of this tragedy."

On March 1, Iran confirmed that its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, had been assassinated in targeted strikes carried out the previous day by the United States and Israel. The killing of a sitting head of state in the midst of ongoing negotiations marks a grave rupture in contempo...