Chandigarh, 29 April, 2024 (Yes Punjab News)
Senior Congress leader and Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) candidate from Chandigarh parliamentary constituency Manish Tewari today took on the Bharatiya Janata Party over its claims on nationalism and patriotism.
“No matter what they preach, when it comes to practice, they only practice fake nationalism and patriotism”, he remarked, while asserting on patriotic and nationalistic credentials BJP can never compete with Congress.
“Any parallels will be out of place”, he quipped while pointing out the number of sacrifices Congress has made for the country as compared to zero sacrifices by the BJP.
During an informal interaction with reporters, on the sidelines of a meeting in Manimajra today, Tewari when asked to comment over BJP’s claims that the country’s stature had risen during the last ten years, quipped, “what happened along the Line of Control in China?”
He observed that no government in independent India has been as timid and weak kneed as the Modi-led BJP government while dealing with China. He pointed out, China had occupied 26 patrolling points in Indian controlled territory.
The government of India, he added, instead of taking corrective and remedial measures has not only preferred silence, but even come to the defence of the Chinese with no less a person than the Prime Minister Modi himself giving “clean chit to China” by saying that no intrusion had taken place and no Indian territory had been occupied.
As regards the rising stature of the country across the globe, Tewari referred to the 1971 Bangladesh War, under the Prime Ministership of Ms Indira Gandhi, who not only created history but also new geography. “Getting photographed with this leader or that one, does not raise the stature of the country”, he remarked, while adding, “it rises when you stand up to your rivals and enemies and see eye to eye with them”.
The former union minister said, it was typical of the BJP that they preach something and practice something else.
Same is with their nationalism and patriotism, he remarked while referring to the weak and meek response of the Modi government towards Chinese aggression and expansionist designs, the way it had built villages close to Arunachal Pradesh and renamed several places.
Tewari was accompanied by the Chandigarh Congress President H.S. Lucky, Aam Aadmi Party senior leader Chandramukhi Sharma, Councilor Jasbir Singh Bunty, Councilor Prem Lata, Surjit Singh Dhillon District President Manimajra, Thakur Kartar Singh former Sarpanch, Daljit Singh, Rajinder Badheri, Narata Singh, Balbir Sharma, Raju Palsaura, Sham Dutt Sharma, Tarlochan Singh, Vijay Pal Munde were present.
