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| The AAP's attack that has rattled PM, RSS | | BJP's Pak, Kashmir policy | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policy towards the aggressor Pakistan and secessionist Kashmiri leadership was never under such sharp attack as it has been since the February 2, 2016 terror attack on the strategic Pathankot Airbase. There is hardly any political party in the country which has not termed PM Modi's policy as weak and which has not termed the Prime Minister as the "weakest ever Prime Minister India ever got".
Besides, all or nearly all the strategic affairs experts in India too have questioned the PM Modi's foreign policy vis-a-vis Pakistan and opined that there was something fundamentally wrong with those who were handling Pakistan and India's foreign policy. They had been urging the Prime Minister to understand Pakistan and refashion his policy accordingly. Their whole view had been that his policy was one of inconsistency and flip flops.
Even the Congress, which repeatedly bungled in Kashmir and whose Pakistan policy had only emboldened Islamabad to foment trouble after trouble for India in Kashmir and elsewhere in the country, has dismissed Narendra Modi as the "weakest" Prime Minister and described his Kashmir policy injurious to the paramount national interest.
However, it was the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which on Tuesday crossed all the lines and launched a highly scathing attack both on the Prime Minister and the so-called cultural organization, the RSS. Launching a blistering attack on PM Modi and the RSS and lambasting their policy towards Pakistan, as also on their dual stand on the Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogan, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal charged them with stabbing Mother India from the back by allowing Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) inside the country to probe the Pathankot attack.
"Even though BJP/RSS chants 'Bharat Mata ki Jai,' but by inviting ISI to India they have stabbed Mother India in the back…It is very shameful. It is for the first time that any Prime Minister has insulted the country before Pakistan," Kejriwal, among other things, said. He also demanded an unconditional apology from the Prime Minister for allowing the ISI and military intelligence persons to probe the Pathankot terror attack.
The AAP didn't stop there. One of its Ministers went to the extent of calling PM Modi as an "ISI agent" and accused him and the RSS of humiliating the Indian nation by dancing to the tunes of Pakistan and giving the ISS respectability and a clean chit. That he would call the Prime Minister an ISI agent only indicated the nature of distrust between the Prime Minister and the AAP.
The major refrain of the AAP was that the Prime Minister had caused an affront to the self-respect of the nation and he will have to tender an apology for his acts of omission and commission.
The attack of the AAP was so sharp that it naturally rattled the Prime Minister, the BJP and the RSS. Upset as they were over the AAP's tirade, the RSS and the BJP fielded a battery of spokespersons to defend PM Modi's Pakistan policy, but with no result. Even the media questioned PM Modi and his whole approach and his foreign policy.
It bears recalling that the Government of India had allowed a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from Pakistan, including an ISI official, to visit India last month to probe the terrorist attack in January on Pathankot air force station in Punjab. The JIT has concluded, according to media reports in Pakistan, that the Pathankot attack was staged by India to spread "viciuos propaganda" against Pakistan. Kejriwal's AAP and the parties like the Congress have been protesting against allowing Pakistan's JIT a role in the investigation on the ground that the ISI, a state actor, has long been the instigator of terrorism in India. |
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