India throws Mugabe under the bus

President Robert Mugabe will not get India's support in his audacious bid to pull out of the United Nations and form a new global organisation.

Indian ambassador to Zimbabwe, Rungsung Masakui said that the world's biggest democracy would continue to push for reforms of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) from within.

Mugabe told Zanu PF supporters gathered at Harare International Airport on arrival from the UN General Assembly meeting last week that African countries, with the support of India, China and Russia, would back the move to pull out and form a rival global body. However, Masakui seemed to dismiss Mugabe's utterances as nothing short of political grandstanding by the 92-year-old Zimbabwean leader.