New Delhi, March 3 -- Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the Union government's silence on the targeted 'assassination' of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was not a neutral stand but an abdication, and that it raises serious doubts about the direction and credibility of India's foreign policy.

The former Congress president also demanded that, when Parliament reconvenes for the second part of the Budget session later this month, the government's "disturbing silence" over the breakdown of the international order be debated openly and without evasion.

In her article published in The Indian Express, Gandhi said there is an urgent need for "us to rediscover" the moral strength and articulate it...