Congress MP Pawan Khera on Saturday slammed the BJP-led Central Government over the installation of large curtains and temporary barricades to screen off slum clusters and low-income neighbourhoods along key transit routes in the national capital ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit.
Speaking to ANI, Tewari said, “Ultimately, the world is adrift…Therefore, the old order, which was built by the victors of World War 2 has completely collapsed. Because everybody is trying to move forward by feeling the stones underneath their feet and to see what will emerge out of this age of monsters, as Antonio Gramsci had characterised…We find ourselves in a similar situation. “So, rather than looking at the outcomes, it is the process which needs to be energised, initialised so that countries and people keep talking to each other. Because it is only through the process of interaction that a viable world order will emerge or else we will regress to the templates of the 17th and 18th centuries,” he further said.
Taking a sharp swipe at the ruling party’s political rhetoric, Khera, accused the administration of trying to hide India’s socioeconomic realities from visiting foreign dignitaries rather than addressing poverty. A new one has not emerged in its place. So, these meetings should be seen as processes, whether it is ASEAN or ARF or Quad or SCO or BRICS or the various other acronyms which are there around the world.
Earlier in the day, Congress MP Manish Tewari said the process of engagement through platforms such as BRICS, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Quad and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was more important than focusing solely on the outcomes of individual meetings, amid what he described as a changing global order. The Congress MP said the existing global order had collapsed and a new one had not yet emerged.
