Maya fires fresh salvo at PM, says Modi engaging in ’emotional blackmail’

September 25: Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that there shouldn’t be any ambiguity left regarding the Centre’s Kashmir policy post Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah’s assertion on Pakistan.

“It is good to advice Pakistani counterpart to concentrate on welfare his people. People of the country are enraged with the BJP government due to terrorist attacks on soldiers and want such incidents to end”, Mayawati said.

Launching a blistering attack on Pakistan in his first public address after last Sunday’s deadly terror attack, he said the sacrifice of 18 soldiers will not go in vain while all out efforts will be made to isolate that country globally.

She said, “I say so because while advising Pakistan to fight poverty, illiteracy and unemployment, the PM must also consider the record of his own government back home as the Modi government’s performance on the topics mentioned have been most dismal”.

“People expect concrete assurance and effective action from PM to check recurrence of such an incident”, Mayawati told reporters in Lucknow. Congress leader Manish Tewari said, “Prime Minister has suddenly started lecturing the people of Pakistan about its new developmental imperatives”. She said that the situation in Kashmir had turned from bad to worse since the BJP led NDA government came to power at the centre.

Abdul Basit said that diplomacy should win between both the countries.

She added that PM Modi was trying to emotionally blackmail people ahead of Assembly polls and people of UP and Punjab should be aware of it.

Addressing a rally in Kozhikode yesterday, Modi asked Pakistan’s people to question leaders of their country as to why India exports software and Pakistan exports terrorism despite getting Independence together.

Taunting Modi, Aiyar said it seems that the former has forgotten that he is the Prime Minister of India not Pakistan.

The Prime Minister, who has been having meetings with top ministers, BJP leaders and service chiefs in the last few days, however, did not spell out the nature of what India’s response would be. He said that although India has “cast aspersions on Pakistan, it continues to sponsor terrorism in Pakistan directly through its state apparatus”.