BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad responded to Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s statement that home minister Rajnath Singh was trying to polarise society and divert attention from the government’s failures by raking up the issue of “Hindu terrorism” allegedly raised by Congress during the UPA regime.
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“Congress party has not learnt right lessons (from these sacrifices)”. He also sought to raise Rahul’s reported comments in 2010 that radicalized Hindu groups may be a bigger threat than the local support for Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Nailing Rajnath Singh’s “lie” that Shinde referred to “Hindu terrorism” in the Lok Sabha, he said the former HM was being quoted “out of context” on his speech in the party forum on secularism in Jaipur where he tried to explain to the Congress workers that those involved in a few of the blasts were not Muslims to dub it an “Islamic terrorism”. Prasad asked.
“Only day before yesterday, when Yakub was hanged, two top leaders of Congress Party Mr. Digvijay Singh and Mr. Shashi Tharoor were questioning the law system of the country. Had they done so the flip flop of the Congress party in the last more than 15 years on the issue of terrorism would not have been there as it is”, he added. The question should be directed to him.
Prasad, who addressed reporters at the party headquarters, raked up the “scams during the UPA” government.
A war of words broke out between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress on Saturday over the “Hindu terror” issue, with the latter accusing the former of polarising the country.
“We have seen the death of ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at the hands of terrorists”. The BJP was quick to hit back.
“The comment of the then home minister is being quoted out of context”. Addressing to press in New Delhi Mr Azad said, it is an attempt to divide the country on religious lines. Congress leader said that the present government of BJP has failed to tackle terrorism and Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing an unexpected surge in ceasefire violations.
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Meanwhile, Mr Azad, observing that there has been growing polarization across India ever since the BJP came to power, said, “There might have been the threat of terrorism, there might have been terrorism, but there was never a polarization”. We are equally interested in discussing the terrorist issue in the Northeast states where our government claimed to have gone into the territory of another country, which they rebutted; we are interested in Kashmir, Ladakh, Rajouri Poonch, Akhnoor, Kathua and Arnia.
