BJP flaunting surgical strike, Congress never praised itself for dividing Pakistan into two nations in 1971: Punjab Finance Minister

BATHINDA: At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA is projecting the surgical strike II as its greatest fulfillment and allegedly attempting to make use of it for electoral gains, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal has gone on the offensive against it. Manpreet claims that while NDA is thrashing its chest over the surgical strike and the use of it as the most important fulfillment ever, Congress had by no means used such gimmicks in spite of making fast strides against Pakistan.

On Sunday which marked the completion of two years of the Congress govt in Punjab, mentioned that “NDA govt claim of destroying terror camps in Pakistan and seeking to encash it for electoral gains however it is the Congress govt which had divided Pakistan into two portions in 1971 however by no means ever attempted to make use of this for political gains”. He further mentioned that it used to be no imply fulfillment that Indian Army had taken 93,000 army personnel as prisoners of war however by no means attempted to make use of it as a device to get political gains. It is top time that defence forces are kept out of political spectrum and we will have to desist from turning the action of defence forces as achievements of the elected govt, he mentioned.

Manpreet mentioned it's been history of the Congress to make big achievements in every field be it's war entrance or creating infrastructure within the country like eminent instructional institutes underneath the command of first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru however by no means concerned politics into all this which the prevailing dispensation at the centre is doing. He called upon the BJP to not to exploit army for political gains and keep it away from electoral politics.