"The External Affairs Minister said last night that India is not a broker country. Be that as it may, the fact remains that the colossal failures in our diplomacy, outreach, and narrative management have made a broken country a broker country," Ramesh said. "We are not a dalaal nation," Jaishankar is said to have told the attendees of the meeting convened at the Parliament complex to discuss the West Asia crisis. Reacting to it, Ramesh had said on X, "Failure of Modi huglomacy: a broken country is now poised to be a 'broker country'". Tagging a media report on Jaishankar's remarks, Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Kherahad, in a social media post, said "Was India a 'Broker Country' when Modi was desperate to mediate between Russia & Ukraine?

Source: The Telegraph March 26, 2026 06:13 UTC