New Delhi, June 01: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday discharged any perception of being overshadowed in her work by a “proactive prime minister”, saying she views it as a “support”.

Taking queries on all problems, together with on the perception that she has been keeping a low profile when turning into minister or on being sidelined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has been following a lively diplomatic engagement, she said the prime minister has not place any restrictions on her.

“A proactive PM is a support, not a challenge. I take it as a support,” she said.

To a matter on her keeping a low profile, Sushma Swaraj said that this goes with her work profile. She said as leader of opposition, she was visible and spoke on different problems overtly, that she couldn’t do as foreign minister. “The prime minister has not place any restrictions on anyone, least of all me,” she said.

To a matter on competition between colleagues, she said she doesn’t believe competition which the whole team of ministers plays in concert

To the opposition’s criticism of Modi’s foreign visits, terming him a “NRI PM”, she rejected the perception.

“The perception is wrong,” she said and added  that Modi had to attend all the multilateral  summits, which there wasn’t abundant distinction within the variety of visits by Modi which by his forerunner Manmohan Singh.

Sushma Swaraj additionally said that she is to visit Jordan, Palestine and Israel this year and Modi would visit Israel too.

She said there’s no change within the government’s Palestine policy and termed reports to the contrary as “wrong perception”. “We can ne’er defeated Palestine,” she said.

She additionally discounted that the govt. was following a frenzied policy and said it was coupled to the domestic policy and therefore the government’s flagship programmes of Make in India, Digital India, Swachch Bharat, and Good Cities.

“It isn’t obsessional foreign policy, however complementary,” she said.