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PM was shooting at Corbett after Pulwama attack: Cong; BJP hits back

NEW DELHI: The Congress targeted PM Narendra Modi for “indulging in self-promotion by way of a film shoot at the Jim Corbett park even minutes after the Pulwama attack”.

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Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 21


The Congress on Thursday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “indulging in self-promotion by way of a film shoot at the Jim Corbett park even minutes after the Pulwama terror attack”.

Hitting back, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wondered whether the Congress wanted India to cow down to Pakistan and stop all the works?

Addressing a press conference, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said the PM continued shooting with the Discovery channel at the Corbett after the news of killing of 40 CRPF jawans broke.

“The pseudo-nationalist PM continued shooting for his self-promotion even after news of the terror attack,” Surjewala said, citing minute-by-minute detail of the PM’s programme on February 14, the day of the attack.

Surjewala’s attack was based on media reports that claimed the PM was in Nainital shooting that day after the news of Pulwama attack broke at 3.10 pm.

Surjewala flashed media reports and said, “The PM continued shooting and then went out of the Corbett and waved at supporters who chanted ‘Modi, Modi’. He then went to a local guesthouse and had tea and snacks. Even when he returned to Delhi he first went to his residence and only then came to the airport to lay tributes to the soldiers whose bodies lay in wait for the PM for over 40 minutes.”

Surjewala also targeted Tourism Minister KJ Alphons for his “selfie with the bodies of slain soldiers” and BJP MP and national executive committee member Sakshi Maharaj for “politicising the last journey of a soldier”.

He said, “This is the character of the PM and his party. For them self-promotion is all that matters. This is the first time any head of state has insulted the sacrifice of soldiers in this way,” Surjewala added.

He also questioned BJP chief Amit Shah for saying at a poll rally after the attack that the sacrifice of soldiers would not go waste because the country is in the hands of the BJP and not the Congress.

The Congress questioned the PM for not declaring a national mourning of a few days despite demands from political parties and charged the PM with going ahead with major programmes and announcements in poll season to draw political mileage.

The Congress had earlier said that they would stand with the Government in this time of trial and would back any step the government took.

Returning with its attack on the government on Thursday, the Congress said, “We are bringing facts to public knowledge, including how PM Modi insulted the memory of dead soldiers by shooting a film right after their death.”

Country firmly believes in PM Modi's leadership: Prasad

Castigating the Congress, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “The Congress should know that regardless of all these connotations, India firmly believes in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his leadership and the ability to secure the country,” Prasad said.

Prasad said it was clear that the Congress wanted India to stall, which is why it was making such "baseless and lowly" allegations against the Prime Minister, he added.

In fact, Pakistan would be happy because the Congress is actually speaking its language, alleged Prasad. “The style may be different but what the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the Congress are saying is basically similar,” he said.

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