New Delhi, July 14: Congress today said government's decision not to send indian troops to Iraq "vindicated" its stand on the issue. "The government, at the long last, has taken a decision not to send Indian troops to Iraq. The principled stand of the Congress party has been vindicated. The government has done right thing", party spokesman S Jaipal Reddy told reporters.
Reddy said it was the Congress party which took a principled stand against sending Indian troops and that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had written a letter in this regard to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Gandhi, in her june five letter had reminded Vajpayee about the unanimous resolution passed in Parliament against committing Indians troops in Iraq and said any such move would be in violation of the resolution. Bureau Report