NEW DELHI: Highlighting a series of statements made by INDIA bloc members, BJP on Monday said they were echoing the voice of Pakistan and asked people to be wary of such “traitors” as their remarks were against the interests of the nation.
At a press conference, BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi cited a statement by National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah where he warned the BJP brass about Pakistan being a nuclear-weapon state, Maharashtra Congress‘s Vijay Wadettiwar’s allegation that an RSS-affiliated police officer and not terrorist Ajmal Kasab killed the then anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare and former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s claim that the attack on IAF personnel in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir was a poll stunt.
“What the National Conference leader has said is very astounding, revealing and shocking as so far only a few Pakistani leaders considered reckless or radicalised religious leaders have made such comments,” Trivedi said.
Replying to a question related to defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statement that India will take possession of POK, Abdullah had said Pakistan was “not wearing bangles” and had nuclear weapons. “Such remarks are also an insult to women,” Trivedi said.
Noting that Congress’s Shashi Tharoor had written a column in a Bangladeshi newspaper slamming Modi while analysing the Lok Sabha elections, Trivedi said while elections were being held in India, the Congress MP was canvassing public opinion in another country.
He claimed that Tharoor referred to the Kashmir Valley as India-administered Kashmir. “The language Tharoor has used is the same that Pakistan uses about J&K,” he added.
Tharoor, however, later clarified that he did not agree with that usage and blamed its insertion in his article on the editors of the Bangladeshi publication. “It has been interpolated by the editors of the newspaper that my syndicated column appeared in. I disavow such language unequivocally, but have no control over what foreign newspaper editors do,” he said in a post on X.
At a press conference, BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi cited a statement by National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah where he warned the BJP brass about Pakistan being a nuclear-weapon state, Maharashtra Congress‘s Vijay Wadettiwar’s allegation that an RSS-affiliated police officer and not terrorist Ajmal Kasab killed the then anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare and former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s claim that the attack on IAF personnel in Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir was a poll stunt.
“What the National Conference leader has said is very astounding, revealing and shocking as so far only a few Pakistani leaders considered reckless or radicalised religious leaders have made such comments,” Trivedi said.
Replying to a question related to defence minister Rajnath Singh’s statement that India will take possession of POK, Abdullah had said Pakistan was “not wearing bangles” and had nuclear weapons. “Such remarks are also an insult to women,” Trivedi said.
Noting that Congress’s Shashi Tharoor had written a column in a Bangladeshi newspaper slamming Modi while analysing the Lok Sabha elections, Trivedi said while elections were being held in India, the Congress MP was canvassing public opinion in another country.
He claimed that Tharoor referred to the Kashmir Valley as India-administered Kashmir. “The language Tharoor has used is the same that Pakistan uses about J&K,” he added.
Tharoor, however, later clarified that he did not agree with that usage and blamed its insertion in his article on the editors of the Bangladeshi publication. “It has been interpolated by the editors of the newspaper that my syndicated column appeared in. I disavow such language unequivocally, but have no control over what foreign newspaper editors do,” he said in a post on X.