'Party apparatchik': Congress calls for sacking of India's envoy to Ireland over attack on opposition

The Congress on April 16 took strong objection to the criticism directed at it by the Indian envoy to Ireland while responding to an Irish daily's editorial, saying that attacking Opposition parties openly in a manner like a "party apparatchik" was "disgraceful behavior" and the Ambassador should be sacked.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh hit out at Indian Ambassador Akhilesh Mishra over his remarks in his "rejoinder" to The Irish Times over what the embassy said was a "highly biased and prejudiced editorial, casting aspersion on Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, Indian democracy, law enforcement institutions and 'Hindu-majority' people of India".

Indian Ambassador Akhilesh Mishra. Photo: X/@AkhileshIFS

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