Mr Raut said the government should “immediately conduct a surgical strike on China and Pakistan” if a minister has information of their role in the farmer protests.
Mumbai| After Union Minister Raosaheb Danve yesterday claimed China and Pakistan’s hand behind the ongoing agitations of farmers, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut took a jibe at the government and said that the government should “immediately conduct a surgical strike on China and Pakistan” if a minister has information of their role in the farmer protests.
“If a Union Minister has information that China and Pakistan have a hand behind the farmers’ agitation, then, the Defence Minister should immediately conduct a surgical strike on China and Pak. The President, Prime Minister, Home Minister and Chiefs of the Armed Forces should discuss this issue seriously,” the Shiv Sena leader said.
Earlier on Wednesday, MRDanve said at a function in Maharashtra: “The agitation that is going on is not that of farmers. China and Pakistan have a hand behind this. Muslims in this country were incited first. What was said (to them)? That NRC (National Register for Citizens) is coming, CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) is coming and Muslims will have to leave this country in six months. Did a single Muslim leave.”
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee, a prominent Sikh body, condemned the remarks.
“Farmers have been sitting peacefully and the government has failed to deliver justice…the farmers who themselves fight and die for the nation, grow food, and whose children too martyr themselves for the nation…don’t try to paint them anti-national,” S Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the group’s president said in a video message on Wednesday.
Tagging the insinuation as “shameful”, Mr Sirsa said the government’s ministers and spokespersons had been making such allegations.
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