As Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his stern remarks against Pakistan following Operation Sindoor, he took a veiled dig at former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his address in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on Tuesday. While underlining that Pakistan realised that they were no match for the Indian armed forces, they started a proxy war against India via cross-border terrorism, tracing back to the Partition, Modi said chains should have been cut but instead, hands were severed during that time.
“In 1947, when Maa Bharti was partitioned, ‘katni chahiye thi zanjeerein par kaat di gayi bhujayein (chains should have been cut but instead, hands were severed)’. The country was divided into three parts. On that very night, the first terrorist attack took place in Kashmir,” Modi said.
“A part of Maa Bharti was captured by Pakistan using terrorists in the name of Mujahideen. If on that day, these Mujahideen were killed, and Sardar Patel’s wish was that until we get back PoK, our armed forces should not stop. But no one listened to him and now, we have been facing this (terrorism) for the last 75 years. Pahalgam was also a perverse form of it,” the prime minister said.
Modi’s remarks came on the 61st death anniversary of Nehru and it did not go down well with the Congress, which aimed salvos at him. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, in a tweet, lambasted the prime minister.
Jairam Ramesh accuses NDA of attempting to diminish Nehru’s legacy
In a previous post on X, Ramesh paid tribute to Nehru and accused the NDA-led government of attempting to defame and diminish his legacy. “Today is the 61st death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, who simply refuses to go away in spite of a systematic 6D effort being made — since 2014 especially — to defame, distort, deny, denigrate, diminish, and demolish him and his legacy,” he said.
