JOIN USThe BJP for the first time brought out a separate foreign policy resolution at its national executive, lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi for initiating “bold, proactive, and innovative” diplomacy hinged on what it called “Panchamrit”—the new pillars of global engagement.
“Samman—dignity and honour; Samvad—greater engagement and dialogue; Samriddhi—shared prosperity; Suraksha—regional and global security; and Sanskriti evam Sabhyata—cultural and civilizational linkages; these five themes have become the Panchamrit—new pillars of our foreign policy,” said the resolution proposed by union minister M Venkaiah Naidu and summed up by external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.
The BJP lauded that in ten months, the prime minister and the external affairs minister have engaged 94 countries defying the “power-bloc politics” and made “irrelevant geo-politics of hyphenation while boosting bilateral relations”.
Modi has virtually overshadowed Sushma Swaraj with PMO virtually running the foreign affairs. Same impression was reflected in the resolution, which makes a mention of the minister twice in the accepted draft, but the text was not so eulogising of her.
At the same time, the resolution attacked previous UPA regime for pursuing foreign policy that “tended to weigh the nation down”.
DH News Service