'Rajiv Gandhi Sought US Mediation': Nishikant Dubey Slams Congress Amid India-Pakistan Tensions

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 13:02 IST

BJP's Nishikant Dubey claimed erstwhile PM Rajiv Gandhi sought mediation from past US President Ronald Reagan connected India–Pakistan disputes, triggering a effect from the Congress.

File photos of BJP's Nishikant Dubey and Congress's Udit Raj (PTI)

A warfare of words erupted betwixt the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress connected Wednesday aft BJP MP Nishikant Dubey claimed that erstwhile Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had requested the past United States President Ronald Reagan for mediating betwixt India and Pakistan.

In an X post, the BJP MP shared a effect by Reagan to Rajiv Gandhi, and questioned the enactment connected wherefore specified petition was made by Gandhi erstwhile nether the 1972 Shimla Agreement, it was decided that immoderate quality betwixt India and Pakistan would beryllium negotiated lone betwixt the 2 countries and determination would beryllium nary mediator.

“It is not casual to beryllium Gandhi. This missive is successful reply to a missive written by US President Ronald Reagan to the past Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi," Dubey wrote connected X.

“When it was decided nether the 1972 Shimla Agreement that immoderate quality betwixt India and Pakistan would beryllium negotiated lone betwixt the 2 countries and determination would beryllium nary mediator, wherefore did the past Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi inquire for US President Reagan’s assistance successful negotiating with Pakistan?" helium questioned.

Countering Dubey’s claims, Congress person Udit Raj, successful an X post, called Nishikant Dubey ‘fake Kant Dubey’ and asserted that Reagan’s effect to Rajiv Gandhi obscurity mentions that the Indian Prime Minister had requested the United States for mediation betwixt India and Pakistan.

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“Not lone the grade of fake Kant Dubey, but everything astir him is fake. The US President Reagan work the missive written to Shri Rajiv Gandhi but it is not mentioned anyplace that India has asked for enactment for mediation," Udit Raj responded.

“Fake Kant Dubey does not cognize however to work English, truthful however tin we assistance him? Modi ji should beryllium called backmost from the delegation instantly due to the fact that helium has gone to exposure Pakistan and the other is happening," helium added, quoting Dubey’s X post.

The warfare of words betwixt the 2 parties comes amid the ongoing governmental debates implicit third-party engagement successful India-Pakistan relations, particularly successful the aftermath of caller escalations triggered pursuing the Pahalgam panic onslaught and India’s retaliatory ‘Operation Sindoor’.

On Tuesday, Nishikant Dubey shared a purportedly declassified 1971 US quality cablegram regarding erstwhile Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s determination to judge a United Nations’ ceasefire connection during the Bangladesh Liberation War, successful effect to the Opposition’s request for clarification from the Union Government connected the US’s engagement successful the caller knowing connected the cessation of hostilities betwixt India and Pakistan.

He further asked whether India prioritised the instauration of Bangladesh implicit reclaiming Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) and securing assets similar the Kartarpur Gurdwara.

Earlier, Congress person Jairam Ramesh took a excavation astatine External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, saying that helium had been “silent" connected US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks astir “US mediation" and “neutral site" for India-Pakistan talks.

However, India refuted the claims made by the US President, reiterating its argumentation that India and Pakistan bilaterally code immoderate substance related to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

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