Congress on Thursday said ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India that the current India-Russia relations are a direct result of the Indo-Soviet partnership that was strengthened in 1955 and has continued since then.
Putin will reach New Delhi on Thursday as part of a two-day visit to India, after which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host a dinner for him.
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh posted on ‘X’, ‘In the last 26 years, the 23rd annual summit between the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of India begins today. These relations are even older. He said, ‘Exactly 70 years ago two top leaders of the USSR visited India. Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev were here for 19 days. He stayed in India from 18 to 30 November, 1955 and again from 7 to 14 December, 1955. Six months before this, Jawaharlal Nehru had visited the Soviet Union.
He said, ‘The Bulganin-Khrushchev visit laid a strong foundation for Indo-Soviet cooperation and Bhilai Steel Plant and IIT Mumbai were two early examples of this. A few years later, under technology transfer, HAL started manufacturing MiG aircraft. This journey also helped shape the future of many other public sector companies like ONGC and IDPL.
Ramesh said that India-Russia relations are a direct result of the Indo-Soviet partnership, which was first strengthened in the second half of 1955 and has continued since then.
