“Yakub Memon hanged. Exemplary urgency and commitment has been shown by Govt and Judiciary in punishing an accused of Terror”.
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The Kerala MP said while “we must fight against terrorism with all the means at our command but cold-blooded execution” has never prevented a terror attack anywhere. Let’s see. Credibility of the Govt and Judiciary is at stake” “What a coincidence! Memon, 53, the only death row convict in India’s deadliest terror attack, the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people, was hanged early Thursday, July 30, 2015 after the country’s president rejected a last-minute mercy plea. “Dr Kalam who has made every Indian proud of his achievements for India”, tweeted the Congress leader. “Be Liberal Secular and Modern”, he tweeted. Shun hatred and violence.
Prasad said he chose to ignore Tharoor’s tweets against the hanging, which the Congress MP dubbed as “state-sponsored killing”, and added that he was “more troubled” by Singh’s comments as he was a Congress general secretary, chief minister for 10 years and an “adviser” to Rahul Gandhi.
Quick on the heels of his tweet expressing “sadness” at Yakub Memon’s hanging, Shashi Tharoor from Delhi has spoken up against the death penalty calling its application “arbitrary” and in effect unequal in India.
Mr Tharoor said he was “saddened” by the news that “our government has hanged a human being. State-sponsored killing diminishes us all by reducing us to murderers too”.
Jaitley said “the irresponsible statements which have come from some Congress leaders with regard to the punishment given to the accused of the 1993 Mumbai blasts also raises a cause of concern”.
“Justice has been done; this increased the people’s faith in the judicial process”. Supporting “anti-nationals” was not a nationalist act, party secretary Shrikant Sharma said as he questioned the “silence” of Sonia Gandhi and demanded that she take action against the leaders.
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BJP MPs on the other hand criticized all such voices of dissent saying these Congress and other opposition “leaders” were trying to grab spotlight by displaying their “intelligence and smart views” – an obvious barb at Shashi Tharoor whose oratory skills have been praised by the PM himself on the floor of the parliament.
