India, March 2 -- By citing former prime minister Indira Gandhi, the Indian National Congress on Monday "condemned" the Narendra Modi government's "silence" for Iran after the US and Israeli strikes.

"'One friendship doesn't come in the way of another, Indira Gandhi said at the White House in 1982. That line defined India's foreign policy for decades," the Congress said in a post on X on Monday. The party further questioned India's silence on the "assassination" of senior leaders of the Iranian regime.

This came a day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge condemned the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint US-Israeli strikes.

"When senior Iranian leaders were assassinated, India did not even issue a con...