On Tuesday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “apologize to the nation” for allowing a Pakistani team to probe the terror attack on the Pathankot IAF base.
Amid Pakistani media reports that the investigators had concluded that the 2 January attack was staged by India, Kejriwal insisted that there had been some “deal” between the BJP and Islamabad.
The entire country and all political parties were against the idea of inviting a Pakistani Joint Investigation Team to probe the attack on the airbase in Pathankot. The government itself said that (Pakistan’s intelligence agency) ISI was involved in the terror attack. How can the ISI investigate its own role? The Prime Minister should apologise to the nation.Arvind Kejriwal
The Chief Minister mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for its leaders’ enthusiasm to make everyone say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.
They keep asking everyone to say ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’. And they stabbed Bharat Mata in the back.Arvind Kejriwal
Taking a jibe at Modi’s meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Lahore in December, Kejriwal said:
Modi Ji met Nawaz Sharif on the latter’s birthday. A week later the attack took place. Modi Ji should reveal the deal he signed with the Pakistani Prime Minister. The people of this country have the right to know what transpired between the two Prime Ministers. What’s the deal, we are unable to understand.Arvind Kejriwal
He went on to add that the invitation to the Pakistani probe team was a foreign policy failure.
In the global forums India would say that the ISI was responsible for spreading terrorism in India. But by inviting the ISI to India, how will India validate its claim before the international community? The foreign policy of the government has failed miserably.Arvind Kejriwal
Kejriwal also added that there was “mass anger” in India over the decision to allow the JIT to visit the Pathankot base. He recalled that Modi used to thunder at election rallies during the Lok Sabha polls of 2014 that one had to be stern with Pakistan and that sending “love letters” to Islamabad wouldn’t help.
No one is above the country. If they (BJP and RSS) are true patriots, then they should ask Modi why he knelt before Pakistan.Arvind Kejriwal
Pakistani media reported that the Pakistan JIT had concluded that the 2 January Pathankot terror attack that left seven Indian security personnel dead was staged by New Delhi to spread “vicious propaganda” against Islamabad.
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