Congress leader and former Maharashtra minister Naseem Khan, who also serves as the Working President of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, called for the suspension of bilateral trade with Israel by the Indian government. He conveyed this demand through a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating, India must immediately stop all bilateral trade with Israel. This would be in accordance with the sentiments of crores of peace-loving people of India.
Right from Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Manmohan Singh, the Indian government has had a very good relationship with the leadership and people of Palestine and we have always stood with them in the hour of need on humanitarian grounds, Khan added.