Time not ripe for politics on Operation Sindoor: Raina to Rahul Gandhi

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, May 24: BJP’s national executive member Ravinder Raina today asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to join the nation in celebrating the success of Operation Sindoor under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership instead of indulging in petty politics to score brownie points.

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“This is not the time for politics. The terrorists bled India by carrying out a dastardly attack on innocent tourists in Pahalgam on April 22 and faced the wrath of the Indian forces under Operation Sindoor on the intervening night of May 6 and 7. This is not a political fight but a fight against terrorism,” Raina told media persons, while addressing a hurriedly called press conference at the party headquarters in Jammu.
Accusing the Congress party of always backstabbing the nation, he alleged that terrorism and separatism are the outcome of its wrong policies.
The BJP leader was responding to a question on Rahul Gandhi’s whirlwind tour to the worst-hit Poonch to express solidarity with the victims of Pakistani shelling.
“The whole nation is saluting the armed forces and the Modi-led Government for the success of Operation Sindoor which brought Pakistan to its knees. Do politics at the time of elections and not this time when everyone is joining the ‘Tiranga Yatra’ with their hearts filled with nationalism,” he said.
Flanked by other senior BJP leaders, including former Minister Zulfikar Ali Choudhary, Raina said it does not behove well for the Congress to do politics on Operation Sindoor with Rahul Gandhi raising questions on the Government.
“Do not betray the nation. Your party is directly responsible for terrorism and separatism in the country and always back stabbed the nation. The country will never forget you and your party,” he added.
Asserting that Pakistan is the biggest enemy and a sinner of Jammu and Kashmir by backing terrorism in the region for the past 35 years, Raina said India under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership will root out terrorism as he kept his promise of hitting terror infrastructure across the border which has set a new security dimension in the country.
Speaking on the occasion, Zulfikar Ali requested the Centre to declare the damage caused by Pakistani shelling as a “national emergency” and ensure proper rehabilitation of the victims of cross-border shelling.
“Pakistan’s indiscriminate shelling on civilian areas makes it clear that it has no love for people and only wants the land of J&K,” he said and requested more underground individual and community bunkers for the border residents for their safety.

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