Summary
Anand Sharma, a veteran Congress leader, has actually resigned from his position as chairman of the celebration’s foreign affairs department after serving for around a years. He intends to help with the addition of more youthful leaders and guarantee connection within the department.
Veteran Congress leader Anand Sharma resigned as the chairman of the celebration’s foreign affairs department on Sunday to assist in its reconstitution and allow generating more youthful leaders.
The previous Union minister led the department for around a years as the National Committee of Department of Foreign Affairs was last made up in 2018.
“As I have conveyed earlier both to CP and Chairperson CPP, in my considered view, the committee needs to be reconstituted to bring in younger leaders of potential and promise. That will ensure continuity in its functioning.
“Revealing my appreciation to the celebration management for having actually delegated me with this obligation, I am sending my resignation as Chairman DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) to facilitate its reconstitution,” Sharma said in his resignation letter addressed to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
Sharma, a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body in the party, has been the Congress’s leading face on international affairs for almost four decades.
Sharma, however, continues to be a member of the Congress.
He has earlier played a crucial role in the negotiations of the Indo-US nuclear deal, pitched for India-specific waivers at the Nuclear Suppliers Group and is also credited with institutionalising the India-Africa partnership in a structured manner and convening the first India-Africa summit.
He was also a member of the recent all-party parliamentary delegations that were sent abroad to put forth India’s stance in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor. Sharma also articulated India’s position to the world after the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
During his tenure as the commerce minister, the first-ever WTO Agreement and comprehensive trade agreements were signed.
In his letter, Sharma said the DFA has, over the last few decades, been actively engaged in building and strengthening the Congress’s relations with like-minded political parties across the world, which share the values of democracy, equality and human rights.
He said the Congress has built strong relations with major political parties in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe and Latin America. The foreign affairs department of the party has established an institutional mechanism for the exchange of leadership delegations with fraternal political parties and international organisations.
“I have had the opportunity to have actually been proactively connected with all significant global efforts of the Congress because mid 1980s as IYC president. These consisted of: NAM youth conference 1985 and the historical ‘Anti Apartheid Conference’ in 1987. These were widely well-known,” Sharma stated.
He likewise stated the Congress effectively assembled the historical Satyagraha centenary conference in January 2007 and a worldwide conference on the 125th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru in November 2014, which were gone to by noteworthy world leaders. These conferences, chaired already Congress president Sonia Gandhi, got around the world recognition.
