India, March 24 -- The Congress on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not condemning the continued US-Israeli air assaults on Iran as it slammed his statement in the Lok Sabha on the West Asia crisis, calling it "a master class in self-boasts, cowardice and partisan dialogue-baazi".

Expressing concern over the prime minister's "invocation of Covid" in his speech, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the Government's response to the pandemic had been "catastrophic" and the nation cannot forget the deeply depressing scenes of that time when people walked barefoot for hundreds of kilometres and "thousands died without oxygen".

In his statement, the prime minister in the Lok Sabha on Monday called for a united appro...