New Delhi, Jan 9 (UNI) CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday attacked what he called as the series of 'flip flops' shown by the Modi Government on the foreign policy front, saying that it was a direct shift to the US side.
Warning that there would be dangerous consequences of shedding its non-aligned stance followed
for decades till now, he said India had become a supplicant of the superpower.
'Its a very very dangerous shift especially in the defence sector and will have serious consequences,'
he stated referring to the joint exercises that were being held with American and Japanese forces in the
South China Seas last year.
'Our foreign policy has really shifted -- it has shifted radically,' he stressed, adding that the country was closely aligning itself with Washington's geo-politics. The Prime Minister was the first leader to go to Israel though it had not voted along with the US in the General Assembly on the Palestine issue.

'What is the message we are sending out? That India has replaced Pakistan as a supplicant,' he asked in reply to questions by reporters at a press conference held at the Indian Women Press Corps here.

Mr Yechury also did not spare the NDA Government on the issue of electoral bond scheme proposed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recently, claiming that these were 'opaque and non-transparent' and instead wanted funding of political parties.
Demanding state funding of elections as was being done in Germany, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader said that parties spending should also come under scrutiny and expressed scepticism that it would prove an escape route to avoid Election Commission ceiling on poll spending. 'We want a ban on corporate funds,' he told reporters here.
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