New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday strongly backed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue of the Indo-Pak joint statement.
She also told the partymen that there should be no confusion or misunderstanding among them on this issue.
Sonia said that India's foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan has not changed.
“Till Pakistan shows concrete steps on anti-terror front there is no point of dialogue,” she told a Congress Parliamentary Party meeting in the Capital.
Singh addressed Parliament on the issue of the joint statement with Pakistan in Egypt on Wednesday.
Resumption of dialogue with Pakistan depends upon whether it fulfills its promises on taking action against perpetrators of Mumbai attacks and does not allow its soil to be used for terror activities against India, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari quoted Sonia as saying in the meeting.
Asked if the party fully endorsed the PM's statement in Parliament on Wednesday, another party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Singh had spoken extensively on the issue.
On whether the party would now back the statement and whether it would be wrong for the party not to defend him, Singhvi said: “It is a loaded question” and walked away.
He also said that Sonia also touched upon issues like the Bill on Food Security and Education in the meeting and exhorted the MPs to be in touch with their constituents.
Though Sonia has denied any rift within the party over the issue according to the sources there are some Congress leaders who are unhappy with the PM.
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