Great Nicobar project ‘commercial, not strategic’, Ramesh tells Rajnath in fresh letter

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Congress MP Jairam Ramesh emphasized that the Great Nicobar project is primarily a commercial venture rather than a strategic one in a letter to Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. The debate centers on the project's true intent and its strategic framing by the government.

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh reiterated that the scheme is “most fundamentally a commercial enterprise” for which a strategic rationale is being “invented”