‘Very good step’: BJP’s Kavinder Gupta backs Rajnath Singh’s refusal to sign SCO joint statement
Jammu, June 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a strong show of strategic clarity, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday declined to sign a joint statement at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers’ meeting in Qingdao, China — a move welcomed as “a very good step” by senior BJP leader and former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta. The joint statement reportedly omitted any reference to the heinous Pahalgam terror attack in J&K and instead included language that could be seen as diluting India’s firm stance on terrorism.
