Launching a scathing attack on BJP President Amit Shah for criticising Rahul Gandhi’s “Khoon ki dalali” remark, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today said that Shah was in no position to question the Congress vice-president.
“Those who have murder cases against them, have been to jail, are in no position to question Rahul Gandhi,” Kapil Sibal said.
Sibal further pointed out that the relations between India and Pakistan wouldn’t have been so strained if the BJP during its time in the government hadn’t released the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.
“Who created JeM? BJP did,” he said.
Sibal also slammed the government for “politicising” the Army’s surgical strikes along the Line of Control.
He said that the government is undermining the valor of armed forces by giving PM Modi all credit.
“Stop putting up these posters claiming credit, it was Army who should be hailed so stop this politics,” he said.
He also pointed out that Shah’s comment that even though he doesn’t agree with taking political mileage of the surgical strikes, they will “take the success of the country’s army to the people” is contradictory.
Sibal also gave a detailed account of all the previous instances when the security forces had crossed the Line of Control to defend the nation. “India’s history doesn’t start from 2014,” he said. It was a response to Shah’s claim that the Indian Army has crossed the border for the first time.
Hours later, the BJP hit back at the on Sibal’s charge that the BJP created Jaish-e-Mohammed. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Congress leader’s statement will only help Pakistan and the ISI.
“What does Congress mean by saying that BJP created Jaish-e-Mohammed? You know who will be happy with this comment? The ISI,” Prasad said.
He also alleged that for Congress, defending Rahul Gandhi is more important than defending the country.
“Congress mein Rahul bhakti desh bhakti par bhaari pad rahi hai,” he said.
On Thursday, the Congress vice-president had accused PM Modi of profiteering from the blood spilt by soldiers.
"Jinhone Hindustan ke liye surgical strike kiye hain, unke khoon ke peeche aap chhupe hain. Unki aap dalali kar rahe ho. Yeh bilkul galat hai. (You are hiding behind theblood of soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir and those who carried out the surgical strikes for India. You are exploiting their sacrifices, which is very wrong}," Rahul had said during a political rally in poll-bound UP marking the culmination of his month-long 'Deoria to Delhi kisan yatra'.
