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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Jyotiraditya Scindia attacks BJP on terrorism
Addressing public meetings in Rajasthan on Friday, Modi again accused the Congress of not acting strongly against terrorism during the UPA rule.
Exuding confidence that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will bounce back in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress general secretary and candidate from Guna parliamentary constituency in Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, has said that the Bharatiya Janata Party needed to be shown the mirror on terrorism.
He was replying to a question on repeated attacks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, among other leaders, over Congress being soft on terrorism.
“It’s very ironical. Isn’t it? The party during whose reign the parliament was attacked; the fact that the party in whose government the minister of external affairs personally escorted Masood Azhar in a government aircraft to Afghanistan to free him, today they are talking about the Congress being soft towards terrorism which has lost two PMs. Someone must show a mirror to them,” Scindia said while campaigning in his constituency on Thursday.
Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar was declared a “global terrorist” earlier this week by the United Nations. The JeM claimed credit for the Pulwama terror attack, in which a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force on February 14, killing 40 personnel.
Addressing public meetings in Rajasthan on Friday, Modi again accused the Congress of not acting strongly against terrorism during the UPA rule.
“The BJP has nothing to do with development, employment and security of women in India. Therefore, BJP has nothing to go back to people with except Rashtravad [Nationalism] and Balakot [India’s surgical strike response to the Pulwama attack]. In five years they have nothing (to show),” Scindia said.
“The issue in this election in Guna is my development oriented policies. Every single road here has been built by me. The quality of the road is far better than those built elsewhere in the state during the tenure of the then chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan,” Scindia said.
Chouhan, who was a three-term chief minister, was unseated after the Congress won the December state polls.
On the BJP fielding Pragya Thakur as the candidate from Bhopal, Scindia said everyone has the right to contest elections.
However, at the end of the day, BJP reverts to Hindutva, he said. “But the people in India are no longer going to be fooled by them. Neither will the people of Bhopal,” he said.
Seven of 29 seats will go to polls in MP on May 6.On further interrogation, she allegedly confessed to her crime and gave away the roles of Rahul Jain and Hooda. They were all arrested and the murder weapon and the valuables taken from the crime scene were recovered, said the officer.
