MEA Slams Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s Remarks on PM Modi’s Foreign Visits as ‘Irresponsible and Regrettable’
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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has strongly reacted to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s recent comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign visits, calling them “irresponsible and regrettable.”
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, in an official statement, said:
“We have seen some comments made by a high state authority about India’s relations with friendly countries from the Global South. These remarks are irresponsible and regrettable and do not behove the state authority. The Government of India dissociates itself from such unwarranted comments that undermine India’s ties with friendly countries.”
The statement came in response to Chief Minister Mann’s remarks during a public event where he mocked the Prime Minister’s frequent foreign visits. Mann had said:
“PM has gone somewhere. I think it is Ghana. He is going to be back and he is welcome. God knows which countries he keeps visiting, ‘Magnesia’, ‘Galveaisa’, ‘Tarvesia’. He does not stay in a country with 140 crore people. He is visiting countries where the population is 10,000 and he is getting the ‘highest awards’ there. Here, 10,000 people gather to watch a JCB.. What has he gotten himself into!.”
The MEA’s strong reply shows the Centre is concerned that such comments could hurt India’s good relations with friendly countries, especially those from the Global South.