<p>Congress on Sunday slammed the Modi government for attending the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after it adopted a resolution against Jammu & Kashmir.<br /><br />“The NDA government sold national integrity by participating in the OIC meeting,” Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said here.<br /><br />He sought to know whether Prime Minister had deputed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for the meeting only to oversee India being labelled a terrorist state and as an occupying force in Jammu and Kashmir.<br /><br />Tewari said by attending the meeting of OIC as an observer, India granted legitimacy to the grouping whose statements it has been rejecting outright.<br /><br />“You became a party to the OIC resolution,” the Congress spokesman said.<br /><br />Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Swaraj’s visit to Abu Dhabhi for the OIC meeting was a “diplomatic faux pas”.<br /><br />“Did PM send our EAM to OIC Meeting for such unacceptable & blasphemous accusations to be hurled at India,” Surjewala asked.<br /><br />In a late night statement, the External Affairs Ministry asserted that J&K is an “integral part of India and is a matter strictly internal to India”.<br /><br />But unlike previous statements, India did not say that OIC has no locus standi, and that India rejected the resolution adopted at the meeting.<br /><br />The Modi government had sought to project the invitation a "welcome recognition" of the presence of 185 million Muslims in India and of their contribution to its pluralistic ethos, and of India's contribution to the Islamic world.</p>
<p>Congress on Sunday slammed the Modi government for attending the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) after it adopted a resolution against Jammu & Kashmir.<br /><br />“The NDA government sold national integrity by participating in the OIC meeting,” Congress spokesman Manish Tewari said here.<br /><br />He sought to know whether Prime Minister had deputed External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for the meeting only to oversee India being labelled a terrorist state and as an occupying force in Jammu and Kashmir.<br /><br />Tewari said by attending the meeting of OIC as an observer, India granted legitimacy to the grouping whose statements it has been rejecting outright.<br /><br />“You became a party to the OIC resolution,” the Congress spokesman said.<br /><br />Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said Swaraj’s visit to Abu Dhabhi for the OIC meeting was a “diplomatic faux pas”.<br /><br />“Did PM send our EAM to OIC Meeting for such unacceptable & blasphemous accusations to be hurled at India,” Surjewala asked.<br /><br />In a late night statement, the External Affairs Ministry asserted that J&K is an “integral part of India and is a matter strictly internal to India”.<br /><br />But unlike previous statements, India did not say that OIC has no locus standi, and that India rejected the resolution adopted at the meeting.<br /><br />The Modi government had sought to project the invitation a "welcome recognition" of the presence of 185 million Muslims in India and of their contribution to its pluralistic ethos, and of India's contribution to the Islamic world.</p>
