Isareli PM's accounted for comments on Narendra Modi brought up in RS

New Delhi, Jul 24 The detailed comments of the Israeli Prime Minister on the reasons Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave for skipping Palestine on his current visit to the Jewish state as brought up in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress today.

Raising the issue, Anand Sharma (Cong), who gave a notice under rule 267 looking for suspension of recorded business of the day to discuss the subject, said it was the Prime Minister's privilege to visit any nation and he had delinked his visit to Israel with Palestine.

Modi went to Israel from July 4 to 6 yet skipped Palestine, withdrawing from the tradition of Indian pioneers going to the two nations on a similar trip.

Sharma said a audio released by a reputed Israeli daily paper expressed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, amid a nearby entryway session with pioneers from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, had disclosed to them that Modi picked the Jewish state to get innovation and water and, in the process disregarded Palestine.

In the discussion handed-off on a 'hot-mic', Netanyahu told the European pioneers in Budapest that Modi revealed to him that he required water for his kin which he can't get from Ramallah, he said.

India, the Congress pioneer stated, has dependably remained in solidarity Palestine.

As Deputy Chairman P J Kurien prohibited the notice, Sharma said the remarks made by the Prime Minister in private discussion includes "nobility of office".

A K Anthony (Cong) said this has broad ramifications. "It is not a little issue."

As the Congress individuals looked for a reaction from the government, Kurien said he was not blocking the legislature from reacting but rather in the meantime he can't immediate them to do as such. "It is up to government whether to react or not," he said.