Welcoming the extradition of 26/11 Mumbai terror assault accused Tahawwur Rana from the US, the BJP Thursday stated it mirrored a brand new India’s zero-tolerance resolve in the direction of terrorism below the management of PM Narendra Modi and accused the Congress of being “smooth on terror for vote-bank politics”.
At a press convention on the BJP headquarters, the celebration’s nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla stated Rana’s extradition was a “huge achievement” of the Modi authorities and its safety businesses. “Earlier, there was once a smooth nook and smooth method in the direction of terrorism within the title of vote financial institution,” he stated.
He stated that it was additionally a tribute to the safety personnel who made the supreme sacrifice combating Pakistan-sponsored terrorists and a giant step in the direction of rendering justice to greater than 160 individuals who have been killed within the assault, together with these from the US, Israel, France, Germany, Italy and different international locations.
“This extradition just isn’t an atypical extradition. It is a reflection of a brand new India’s resolve which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had described in 2019, saying that if anybody dared to assault India’s unity, integrity, respect and its harmless folks, the brand new India would deliver such terrorists to justice,” Poonawalla stated.
“Earlier, particularly between 2004-14 (throughout Congress-led UPA regime), there was not a single month when there was no main terror assault in some main metropolis of India,” he stated, including that the federal government remained a mute spectator to terror assault incidents and didn’t take “concrete steps” in opposition to such terrorists and the sponsors of terrorism in India.
Poonwalla stated such main terror assaults had “virtually stopped” as a result of Modi authorities’s coverage of zero tolerance in the direction of terrorism.
In the meantime, Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde congratulated Modi and Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for bringing again Rana and stated there was little doubt that the individual answerable for the phobia assaults will get a extreme punishment.
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