New Delhi : The Congress on Monday asked the government to walk an extra mile to reveal how it wants to respond to the terror attack on the Uri base camp on Sunday instead of shooting from the hip.
“It is not for the opposition parties to respond. The government is seized of the matter and it should reveal its cards instead of blowing hot air since yesterday,” Congress spokesman Manish Tewari asserted at an AICC press briefing.
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Congress posed two questions before Modi
l Can you assure the nation that there would not be another terrorist attack?
l Do you have a policy towards Pakistan, and if you do have, what is that policy?
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He mounted attack on Prime Minister Modi quoting his hawkish tweaks in the past in 2009 and 2013 in tune with a no-holds barred attack mounted by the netizens on Modi’s own Twitter account that he faced never ever since coming to power in 2014. Tewari said the Congress has the experience of dealing with such situations while in power, but it would not volunteer advice, at least not through the press, unless the government asks for it. He said the government should always take all parties into confidence during such situations, but Modi appears not to believe in policy of consultation.
He said all that the Congress can, therefore, ask the Prime Minister are just two questions:
— Can you assure the nation that there would not be another terrorist attack?
— Do you have a policy towards Pakistan, and if you do have, what is that policy?
“Beyond the hyper ventilation and the hot air blown since Sunday, we would ask the government to themselves ask two questions: What is that they want to do qua Pakistan and what is it that they can do qua Pakistan,” the Congress spokesman said.
Tewari quoted hawkish remarks of Modi as well as home minister Rajnath Singh, defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and BJP President Amit Shah and wondered if a policy could be discerned from such a muddle. “Are you not weak? If indeed you are a strong government, the country needs proof of that.” Tewari said he was not saying it but only quoting what Modi said on May 4 2009. He played up his another tweet on August 6 2013 when he had said “UPA government has been absolutely lax in securing India’s borders.”
After the Pathankot attack, Tewari said Parrikar had boasted: “Can assure that without my permission no one can come; these terrorists who came were the last.” And, just before Modi assumed power, Amit Shah had said on April 23 2014: “If Modi becomes Prime Minister, Pak intruders would not dare to cross the border.”
Rajnath Singh asserted on March 22 2015 that “border ki security hum aise ensure karenge ki chooha bhi ghune ki koshish na kare.”
Tewari said the Congress will not say all this alike the BJP leaders as “for unlike them, we do not do politics with national security.”
