Modi lacks Kashmir diplomacy, should learn from Vajpayee: Dulat

Former RaW chief AS Dulat has slammed PM Narendra Modi, saying he has learnt no lessons from former PM AB Vajpayee’s handling of the Kashmir issue.

Dulat went a step further, asserting that even former PM Manmohan Singh was a better leader than Narendra Modi, because Singh made ‘every effort’ when it came to resolving the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

Dulat was speaking to a leading daily on the sidelines of a discussion on his bestselling tome “Kashmir, The Vajpayee Years”.

He said that after Jawaharlal Nehru, it was Vajpayee who handled the Kashmir issue effectively and that even his immediate predecessor Manmohan Singh tried his best to settle the disputable issue.

“Vajpayee was a leader and a politician and Modi should learn politics and it is the differentiating issue between the two. Modi in my humble opinion has to learn politics and it is pity he did not learn it from Vajpayee who is the greatest Indian politician,” The Times of India quoted him as saying.