Sharad Pawar Will Send Supriya To Gaza To Fight For Hamas: Assam CM On NCP Chief's Palestine Support

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday slammed NCP supremo Sharad Pawar over his comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

"I think Sharad Pawar will send Supriya madam to Gaza to fight for Hamas," said Sarma on asking his views on Pawar's take on the ongoing war.

Earlier, Sharad Pawar had claimed that the previous Prime Ministers had stood "firmly with Palestine."

"We want peace in the world. Now, there is a war going on between Israel and Palestine. The entire land is of Palestine and Israel encroached on their land. That place, land, and houses, everything was of Palestine and later Israel took over it. Israel is an outsider and the land is originally of Palestine. After encroachment, Israel was formed," India Today quoted Sharad Pawar as saying.

"Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and Atal Bihari Vajpayee all had the same thoughts about the Israel-Palestine issue. It was always the stand of the Indian government. India never stood with anyone else. India always stood with people who originally owned the land and houses there (Palestine)," he stated.

"It is very unfortunate that for the first time, our Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) stood with Israel, leaving the real issue over there. He neglected the real issue. We should be clear about our stand. The stand of the NCP should be clear. We stand by the people who originally belonged to that land," Pawar further added.

On October 10, Modi told his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that people of India stand firmly with his country, expressing strong and unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all its forms.

Union minister Piyush Goyal too criticised chief Sharad Pawar over his remarks and said, "It is very disturbing when a senior leader like Sharad Pawar ji makes preposterous statements on India's stand on a terror attack in Israel. The menace of terrorism has to be condemned in all forms, in any part of the world. It is a pity that a person who has been India's Defence Minister as well as a Chief Minister many times has such a casual view on issues relating to terror,"