New Delhi: Describing the UN designating JeM chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist as a great diplomatic victory for India, the BJP on Thursday said opposition parties are reluctant to celebrate the achievement as they feel they may have to pay political price for it. Senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters the current dispensation succeeded in an attempt the country has been making for the last 10 years, “but then they (opposition) says ‘this is trivial, what is big in it’.”
At party office, he told media there was a tradition in the country to speak in one voice on issues such as external affairs and national security but there has been a departure from it in the last few years. Emphasising that the labelling of Azhar as a global terrorist is a “great diplomatic achievement for India”, the finance minister said, “If India wins, Indians win, but there are friends in opposition who are not celebrating it as they may have to pay a political price for it.”
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attributed the success of sanctioning of JeM chief to Modi. “Terrorism shall not be tolerated and this declaration from the UN is noteworthy. It is the result of persistent measures taken by the external affairs ministry, under leadership of PM Modi,” she said.
Modi isolated Pakistan on world stage: Amit Shah
In Biora (MP), BJP chief Amit Shah said Modi has “isolated” Pak in the world. He took a jibe at Rahul, saying he vanishes to locations unknown even to his mother when “temperature soars”. “Masood carried out blasts for years. Nobody could get him declared an international terrorist. Yesterday was a golden day, as he was declared a global terrorist.”
