India, March 3 -- Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi criticised the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday, saying its silence on the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is an "abdication."

In her article published in The Indian Express, titled "Government's silence on killing of Iran leader is not neutral, it is abdication," Gandhi wrote that there is an urgent need for "us to rediscover" the moral strength and articulate its clarity.

Abdication refers to the act of no longer controlling or managing something that you are in charge of. It could also refer to an occasion when "a king or queen makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen," according to the Cambridge dict...