New Delhi, May 2 (Inditop.com) On the face of it, nothing new had happened between India and Pakistan to lead to the dramatic “thaw in Thimphu”. But if Congress sources are to be believed, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made it a point to garner solid support within the party before embarking on the peace initiative.
Unlike the Sharm-el-Sheikh declaration that whipped up such a political frenzy in July last year, this time there was a quiet acceptance about dialogue as the only way forward.
The reason: the prime minister went this time to Thimphu with a strong backing of his party. “He consulted a lot of us and impressed on us the need to take the dialogue process forward,” said a senior Congress leader.
The party was solidly behind him, he said.
