Mallikarjun Kharge: PM Modi building false narrative on Katchatheevu

The party also released RTI information of 2015, in which foreign ministry, under then foreign secy S Jaishankar, said there was no question ceding the island as the area was not demarcated and under the agreement signed later, it lay on the Lankan side. "Is Jaishankar disowning the reply?" Jairam Ramesh asked. Congress's P Chidambaram said the EAM had somersaulted from a "liberal foreign service officer" to "a spokesman of BJP-RSS".