NEW DELHI, June 9 (Xinhua) -- The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Thursday accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making India "a strategic junior partner of the U.S. global strategic designs."
Commenting on the India-U.S. Joint Statement issued during Modi's visit to Washington earlier this week, the CPI-M said it amounted to abandoning New Delhi's independent position on foreign policy.
"The 50-paragraph Joint Statement ... is a declaration that cements India's role as a strategic junior partner of U.S. global strategic designs," the party said in a statement.
"The agreement covers almost the entire scope of bilateral relations as well as a global partnership, declaring that India has abandoned its established independent foreign policy and has firmly tied itself to the apron strings of U.S global strategic designs," it said.
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