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Last Updated: May 09, 2024, 13:12 IST
Faridabad, India
Mahender Pratap Singh during an election rally suggested that 2019 Pulwama attack was a poll stunt. (X/@SVishnuReddy)
Congress candidate Mahender Pratap Singh's comment drew sharp criticism from the BJP for suggesting that the 2019 Pulwama attack 'wasn't done by Pakistan, but rather the Indian government'.
As political heat rises amid ongoing Lok Sabha elections, another Congress leader seems to have given a clean chit to Pakistan in the 2019 Pulwama attack case. The latest remark by former minister and grand old party’s Faridabad candidate, Mahender Pratap Singh, drew sharp criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for suggesting that the 2019 strike “wasn’t done by Pakistan, but rather the Indian government”.
“The Pulwama attack incident is out in the open. Their own governor (referring to Satya Pal Malik) had revealed that he had requested the prime minister to air lift the personnel as they did not want to use the route due to security threat. There’s no bigger proof than this revelation. So the second term was secured (with this poll stunt). And now they are preparing for third term,” Singh can be heard saying in the election rally speech shared by BJP leader Vishnu Vardhan Reddy on X.
#CONgress candidate from Faridabad openly stated that the Pulwama attack wasn't done by Pakistan, but rather the Indian Govt was behind it.India lost 40 brave soldiers in the Pulwama attack, and the whole nation was in anger. Today, #Congress is shamelessly giving clean chit to… pic.twitter.com/W1bgiim33X
— Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (Modi ka Parivar) (@SVishnuReddy) May 9, 2024
Recently former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi, Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Vijay Wadettiwar and Shashi Tharoor made similar comments on terrorists attacks in India.
While Warring called the 2019 Pulwama attack a ‘mystery’ and claimed that the ruling BJP “can do anything to during elections”, Channi suggested that the terror strikes around elections are “stuntbaazi”.
The former Punjab CM’s remarks that triggered a political firestorm came in the backdrop of a recent terrorist attack on an Indian Air Force convoy in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch.
On the other hand, Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar claimed Maharashtra top cop Hemant Karkare, who was the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad chief during the 26/11 terror attack, “not killed by terrorists but by a police official close to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)”.
Wadettiwar’s said his statement were based on the book “Who Killed Karkare” written by retired police officer SM Mushriff.
Later, grand old party veteran leader Shashi Tharoor sought a “serious investigation” into Wadettiwar’s claim. “…It seems to me that this allegation should have been seriously investigated. And it is not too late. Because on such an important matter, the nation has every right to know what really happened,” Tharoor had said.
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