Congress: Modi violated India's foreign policy

"We have a bi-partisan strategic alliance between India and the US that we completely support," Senior Congress Leader Anand Sharma told reporters here.

He said: "There's an honorable convention on India's foreign policy that we don't participate with foreign governments, the Indian President or Prime Minister do not participate in their domestic electoral politics when they are on their soil." Sharma said the Modi should have "avoided" that.

"We saw India taking positions or sides, and it should have been better avoided for the Prime Minister to use that time to exhort and raise the slogan on' Abki Bar Trump Sarkar,' he said.

His remarks came a day after Modi during his address to a crowd of over 50,000 in Houston cheered for Trump.

"The words of President Trump, 'Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar', rang loud and clear," said Modi, pausing strategically, after saying "Abki Baar Trump Sarkar".

The Congress Rajya Sabha MP pointed out that in the past India has engaged with both the Republican and the Democratic administrations in the US.

He said in 2008, it was a Republican administration under President George W. Bush, and our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "And we had successfully signed the historic Indo-US nuclear deal. And when the Presidential elections came, Manmohan Singh did not take partisan position to support or endorse the Republicans," he said.

"And after elections President Barack Obama took over as US President and we took forward that engagement with Democratic President as we had done during the Republican President," he added.

( With inputs from IANS )