Kinshasa, May 27 -- BJP leader SS Ahluwalia, part of the all-party delegation led by Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde, said that India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have always supported each other in difficult times and will continue to do so in the future.

Ahluwalia said Congo reaffirmed its commitment to stand with India, just as it has since opening its first mission in Delhi in 1962.

Speaking to ANI, SS Ahluwalia said, "We (India-Democratic Republic of the Congo) have always stood together in the hours of grief. In 1962, the first Mission of Democratic Republic of the Congo opened in Delhi, India. In the past decades too we stood with them and we are together even today. That is why, when we are presenting our view, they too...