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Adding to the voices back home that Rahul Gandhi's statements in Bahrain against the Modi administration's policies were irresponsible, National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah said that when abroad, leaders should focus on "building strength" irrespective of what the "views" of a political party is.

Speaking to India Today at the PIO Parliamentarian Conference that was held in New Delhi on Tuesday he said, "Party has its own views. They have very strong views as far as demonetisation is concerned or GDP is concerned. In a foreign country we speak for India and for the future of India. That we should not forget. It is the strength that we have to build, even if mistakes have been made here, those mistakes should be left here."

Dr Abdullah also praised the effort made by the opposition party to engage the world. Reminiscing how Congress always cultivated relations since Nehru's times, he welcomed Rahul Gandhi's start to traveling abroad to engage the diaspora.

"I congratulate him for engaging because his party always did it. Whether it was Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister who traveled country after country to build relations, then it was his daughter Indira Gandhi and so did Rajiv, cultivating the world", said the NC president.

Rahul Gandhi on his maiden visit abroad as Congress President attacked the Modi administration. While addressing the Indian diaspora in Bahrain he was highly critical of the economic policies of the Narendra Modi government and also accused the government of dividing people on the basis of caste and religion and instilling "hatred between communities".

"I am here to tell you what you mean to our country, that you're important, to tell you there is a serious problem at home, to tell you that you're part of the solution and that I am here to build a bridge between wherever you are in the world and home," he said in his address to the Global Organisation of People of India Origin on Monday.

Dr Farooq Abdullah emphasised that the focus should be on making India better while engaging the Indian diaspora rather than being stuck on earning political brownie points. "We should talk broadly on how that diaspora in that part of the world can help us and how we can help them," he said.