New Delhi: India`s participation in world
affairs has been as per the dreams of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
who believed in sharing responsibility among nations, Minister
of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday.
"I always believe with Nehruji`s that India is a
country that since millenia has felt the sense of
responsibility not only to itself but for the world," he said
at a function organised by Rotary International to bid
farewell to a batch of Ugandan children who underwent heart
surgery here.
"His famous midnight speech when India accomplished
independence and was engulfed at the same time by the feeling
of partition and violence, even at those troubles, Nehruji was
speaking his dreams for India. Those dreams were not only for
India but for the world," Tharoor said.
"That is the spirit that shows India`s foreign policy
and participation in world affairs as a global citizen," he
said.
Some time back, Tharoor was accused of criticising
Nehru`s foreign policy, which he strongly denied.
He harped on the philosophy of world being a family
and said the barriers and divisions of borders were official
creations that human beings impose on each other.
PTI
