Dehradun, March 5 -- India is not required to take sides in the ongoing conflict in West Asia. It must put its own interests first. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's allegation in an article published in the National Herald that the lack of any official statement on the taking out of Iran's 'Supreme Leader' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei 'is not neutral, rather it amounts to an abdication of responsibility'. The question is, responsibility towards whom? The people of India or a section of society that blindly follows faith leaders regardless of their actions?
The Modi government has consistently maintained good relations with Iran and worked to build strong economic relations with it, while distancing itself from its internal politics, or backing its...