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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he and the Congress do not agree with Singh’s comments on the surgical strikes and the armed forces are not required to provide any evidence (Image: @Congress/Twitter)
BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress has a habit of projecting uncomfortable views of its leaders as its personal views and asked if there is any limit to such opinions.
Why did you do it Rahul Gandhi Criticizing the former Congress chief for dismissing Digvijaya Singh’s controversial comments on the surgical strikes as his “personal opinion”, the BJP on Tuesday took so long to declare its respect for the armed forces.
It also asked the Congress to clarify its stand on the issues of terrorism and national security.
As Gandhi reprimanded his party colleague Digvijaya Singh for questioning the surgical strikes while the BJP seized on the row to corner the opposition party, BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress needs to Leaders have a habit of presenting uncomfortable views. Personal opinion and asked if there is any limit to such opinion.
“The question is what is the standard of these leaders when it comes to respecting our armed forces. Indians do not ask for proof of their bravery, but salute them.
Attacking Gandhi for his “faltering” stand on the armed forces, he also referred to some of his past comments, including the recent one in Dausa during the Bharat Jodi Yatra, in which the government’s ties with China The handling of the border standoff was questioned and claims were made that the Chinese were “beating up”. Up” Indian soldiers.
Prasad told reporters that he had used “khoon ki dalali” after the 2016 surgical strikes to attack the Modi government and had visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to offer moral support to the “tukde tukde gang”.
The BJP leader asked why it took him so many years to say publicly that he respected the armed forces. Prasad said that he should have also said ‘sorry’ for what he had said earlier.
He took a dig at Congress leader Jairam Ramesh for physically stopping a journalist from questioning Singh’s statement about the surgical strike and the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
Gandhi said on Tuesday that he and the Congress did not agree with Singh’s comments on the surgical strikes and the armed forces were not required to provide any evidence. It’s ridiculous, he said on the comment.
I do not agree with Digvijay Singh’s statement. It is clear that we disagree with this. This is the official position of the Congress,” Gandhi told reporters in Jammu and Kashmir.
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