Accusing the Congress of “talking the language of Pakistan” following the Pahalgam terror assault, the BJP Monday demanded that the principle Opposition get together take motion in opposition to its leaders for making statements which can be “getting used” as “anti-India” propaganda throughout the border.
Addressing a press convention, BJP nationwide spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad described as “shameful” and “unwarranted” remarks by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramiah and different Congress leaders, equivalent to Saifuddin Soz and Mani Shankar Aiyar, and others linked to the get together, equivalent to Robert Vadra.
Stating that these remarks come at a time when the nation is grappling with grief following the assault that left 26 individuals lifeless, Prasad accused the Congress leaders of searching for to “weaken India’s unity”.
He sought to know whether or not the Congress “really” stood united with the Authorities because it had said in the course of the all-party assembly following the assault.
“What are the Congress’s senior leaders saying (about such statements)? Why are they saying so?… a sample appears to have emerged… Karnataka CM Siddaramiah has mentioned conflict will not be an choice… Pakistan TV channels and their generals are utilizing this,” Prasad informed reporters.
Prasad referred to Siddaramaiah’s comment that there was no want for a conflict; Karnataka Excise Minister R B Timmapur asking “why would somebody firing a gun ask about an individual’s caste or faith?”; and an announcement by Vijay Wadettiwar, Chief of the Congress Legislative Get together in Maharashtra, asking whether or not “terrorists have time to ask about faith whereas capturing?”
Prasad additionally questioned Vadra’s remarks about Muslims feeling suppressed and Aiyar’s comment that the implications of the Partition stay unresolved to at the present time.
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Siddaramaiah and Vadra later clarified that their remarks had been misinterpreted. The Congress additionally sought to distance itself from such statements with the get together’s communications in-charge, Jairam Ramesh, posting on X: “They converse for themselves and don’t mirror the INC’s views. There needs to be completely little question in any way at this most delicate of instances that the CWC decision, the views expressed by Shri Mallikarjun Kharge and Shri Rahul Gandhi (on the all-party assembly) and the views of authorised AICC office-bearers ALONE characterize the place of the INC”.
Prasad, in the meantime, mentioned that whereas the worldwide neighborhood, together with the US, Russia, Australia, England, Saudi Arabia, Italy and UAE, “are all standing with India”, Congress ministers had claimed “the world is mocking us”.
“The place are these ideas and phrases coming from? Through the candle march in Bihar, slogans of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ have been raised…When requested whether or not he would go to the home of Shubham Dwivedi (one of many vacationers who was killed within the assault), Akhilesh Yadav said that he has no reference to the household however would encourage his get together employees to go there…That is really unlucky and deeply regrettable,” Prasad mentioned.
“Do Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge haven’t any management over their get together?…all these statements are being misused by Pakistan, their social media is stuffed with it…did they converse to Siddaramiah? Will any motion be taken? This isn’t proper; we condemn such statements,” Prasad mentioned, reiterating Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dedication to provide a “befitting reply” to these behind the phobia strike.
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Taking over Kharge, whom he accused of harbouring “resentment” in opposition to Modi, Prasad mentioned, “In actuality, Mallikarjun Kharge harbors resentment in the direction of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, which is why he made the ‘56-inch chest’ comment. At a time when the nation expects unity, Kharge ought to chorus from utilizing such language.”
BJP Lok Sabha MP Sambit Patra, in the meantime, requested whether or not such leaders have been “Pakistani brokers”, and the statements made by Congress leaders “a blatant try to decrease the morale of the nation’s military, the nation’s individuals and the nation’s authorities”.
The BJP’s renewed assault got here a day after the get together’s nationwide spokesperson, Sudhanshu Trivedi, took on the Karnataka CM for “talking the identical language” as “Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Pakistan’s Residence Minister and Pakistan’s Overseas Minister”.