Union Minister Pralhad Joshi countered at the Congress event over event head of state Mallikarjun Kharge’s ‘terrorist party’ comment on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming Sonia Gandhi ‘shed tears’ for terrorists. Joshi additionally charged Congress- led UPA federal government of ‘being soft’ on horror convicts likeAfzal Guru
He insisted that it is just under Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the country has actually experienced a noteworthy decrease in terrorist tasks.
Taking to social networks system ‘X’, the Union Minister claimed, “Mallikarjun Kharge mistakenly called BJP as Terrorist party by slip of tongue, however it was Sonia Gandhi who shed tears for terrorists who died in Batla House. It was congress which was soft on Afzal Guru. It was congress who repealed POTA in 2004. It was their PM Manmohan Singh who shook hands with Separatist Militants”
He included that nowadays Kashmiri young people have employment possibility rather than ‘stone’, which held true throughout Congress’s period. “As a senior leader, Kharge should double check what he says.” Joshi composed.
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On October 12,Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge highly shot down Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that the Congress event is affected by “Urban Naxals.” Kharge charged the BJP of being a “party of terrorists,” holding them liable for lynchings and significant offenses versus Scheduled Castes (SCs) and tribal areas.
“Progressive people are being called Urban Naxals…this is his (PM Modi’s) habit. His party (BJP) itself is a terrorist party. They engage in lynching, assault people, urinate in the mouths of Scheduled Castes members, and rape tribal people. They also support those who commit these acts, and then they blame others,” Kharge claimed.
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The BJP condemned the comment, with National Spokesperson C.R. Kesavan slamming Mallikarjun Kharge for his current remarks. Kesavan charged the Congress event of having a “divisive and communal mindset,” comparable to that of the “colonial British.”
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( with ANI inputs)