The issue of ‘saffronising’ foreign policy is serious, and deserves to be examined in greater depth. When Mr. Modi visited Abu Dhabi in 2015, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government announced the allocation of land for the UAE capital’s first Hindu temple. These tweets, by the MEA and the Prime Minister, were not in keeping with the secular traditions of India’s foreign policy engagements. Let’s not get carried away: it was neither foreign policy, nor an achievement. The outsourcing of India’s foreign policy activities to overseas Hindu organisations should therefore be put an end to.

Source: The Hindu July 11, 2017 18:33 UTC