New Delhi, June 18 -- Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, labelling him a "failed diplomat" and a "failed minister" who merely "parrots" statements from the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).

Tagore's attack followed the Union Minister's earlier dismissal of Congress MP Jairam Ramesh's "triple jhatka" remark on Indian foreign policy and diplomacy after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump's telephone conversation. The minister noted that such remarks come from a party whose lies are routinely exposed.

"You have to see that these statements are coming from a political party whose lies are exposed daily," the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Ga...