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Hitting back at Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said "we work for the government of India... not for a family", adding that he has "earned his post"...
In an exclusive conversation with India Today, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that "we work for the government, we did not work for a family"..
His comment came more than a month after Congress leader Jairam Ramesh accused him of losing "all intellectual honesty and objectivity"...
In his post on X on January 4, Ramesh, the Congress party's general secretary in charge of communications, also accused Jaishankar of indulging in "Nehru-bashing to ingratiate himself even more with the Prime Minister".. . r ..
In his interview with India Today, the External Affairs Minister also spoke on foreign policy issues and addressed concerns regarding the India-Maldives row, China, Pakistan, and the possibility of former US President Donald Trump's return to the White House...
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