Modi has no strategy on Pakistan: Rahul Gandhi

India's successes have come whenever power has been decentralised, says Gandhi

Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not have a deeply thought out strategy when it comes to Pakistan while addressing students in London at the Strategic Studies Institute.

In addition to mentioning Modi’s lack of strategy for Pakistan, he also said "it was difficult to work with Pakistan". Gandhi claimed that this was because there is no one institution that holds supremacy in Pakistan.



“Pakistan, from our perspective, is a number of institutions. So the difficulty from an Indian perspective is which institution do you talk to… so you keep a conversation going, you wait till Pakistan is able to resolve some of these issues, you wait till Pakistan has a more coherent structure you can talk to...”

Rahul Gandhi was speaking on India's economic growth and foreign policy. He said India's successes have come whenever power has been decentralised and there has been a massive centralisation of power in the last 4 years.



Gandhi is on his first official visit to the United Kingdom as president of the Indian National Congress and arrived on Friday from Berlin.

 

This article originally appeared on Times of India.