India has never changed position on Israel-Palestine dispute: Fadnavis

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 18 (ANI): In a reaction to National Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar’s statement on India changing its stand on the Israel-Palestine issue, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the country has never changed its position on this issue but has “always strongly opposed terrorism”.
“India has never changed its position on the Israel-Palestine dispute. However, at the same time, India has been consistently against and has always strongly opposed terrorism in any form and against anyone,” Fadnavis said in a post on ‘X’.
Fadnavis said that India followed the footsteps of other nations in the world in condemning the killing of innocent civilians in Israel and Sharad Pawar should also take the same stand against terrorism.
“When the entire world has condemned the killing of innocent people in Israel and India did the same, Shri Sharad Pawar ji should also speak in the same language against terrorism,” the Deputy Chief Minister said.
Remding the NCP chief of the Mumbai terror attacks, Fadnavis requested Pawar to rise above “vote bank politics” and “strongly condemn terrorism”.
“Mumbai has suffered a lot due to the terror attacks. Especially during 26/11, Mumbai had lost many citizens. My request to Sharad Pawar ji, is to not think about vote bank politics, but to strongly condemn terrorism,” he said.
Earlier, addressing a gathering of party workers in Mumbai, the NCP chief said that while all former Prime Ministers of India has taken a firm stand supporting Palestine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi suported Israel in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. (ANI)