P Chidambaram attacks S Jaishankar: ‘From liberal officer to RSS mouthpiece’.

S Jaishankar today claimed former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru considered Katchatheevu island a nuisance.Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday launched a scathing attack on external affairs minister S Jaishankar over the latter’s press-conference on the Katchatheevu island issue, saying he had become a “mouthpiece” of the BJP and RSS from being a “suave liberal foreign service” officer.S Jaishankar, one of the most vocal ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet, today claimed that former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru considered Katchatheevu island a nuisance.“This is an observation by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in May of 1961. He says, he writes, I attach no importance at all to this little island and I would have no hesitation in giving up our claim to it. I do not like matters like this pending. Indefinitely and being raised again and again in parliament. So to Pandit Nehru, this was a little island. It had no importance. He saw it as a nuisance,” S Jaishankar said in a press conference.Reacting to his remarks, Chidambaram asked why S Jaishankar launched a tirade against the DMK and the BJP.“Tit for tat is old. Tweet for Tweet is the new weapon. Will Foreign Minister Mr. Jaishankar please refer to the RTI reply dated 27-1-2015. I believe that Mr Jaishankar was the FM on 27-1-2015. The Reply justified the circumstances under which India acknowledged that a small island belonged to Sri Lanka. Why is the Foreign Minister and his ministry doing a somersault now? How quickly can people change colours? From a suave liberal Foreign Service officer to a smart Foreign Secretary to a mouthpiece of the RSS-BJP, life and times of Mr Jaishankar will be recorded in the annals of acrobatic sports,” he wrote on X.