Katchatheevu To Ladakh Stand-Off: How Poll Potshots Could Land India In A Foreign Policy Fix

From the Opposition to the ruling dispensation, several leaders have been citing episodes relating to India’s foreign policy on the campaign trail amid the ongoing Lok Sabha election.

PM Modi at a rally for the Lok Sabha election, in Goa on Saturday.

Source : PTI

As India’s foreign-policy-related developments – including those from dusty old files dating decades back – are flipped through at rallies amid the ongoing parliamentary elections, their likely impact on the country’s international relations and security interests bears a moment of thought.  From the Opposition to the ruling dispensation, several leaders have been citing episodes like the Ladakh stand-off with China and the 1974 treaty on Katchatheevu with Sri Lanka