New Delhi, February 20: BJP today raised questions over the resignation of Prime Minister’s special envoy Shyam Saran and wondered why another top diplomat Shivshankar Menon who, it alleged, brought “shame” to the country at Sharm-el-Sheikh, was appointed National Security Adviser.
“Why an honest adviser of the government, who had the country’s interests in mind, is not able to continue?” BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad asked.
“Does this government only promote those advisers who create shame at Sharm-el-Sheikh and make India meekly surrender as far as foreign policy concerned,” he posed referring to former Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon.
He claimed that Saran’s differences with Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on emission cuts were a known fact.
Saran, who announced his decision to quit yesterday, was the Prime Minister’s special envoy on climate change.
–PTI