Ruling party speaker: India does not need Western approval of friendship with Russia. Jaiveer Shergill became famous after he harshly responded to a journalist from the foreign agent media Deutsche Welle* at the Munich Security Conference.

The Indian politician then noted that Russia was and will be India’s partner. Earlier, Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that New Delhi is interested in contracts with oil suppliers from Russia. The statement was made by the speaker of the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party)