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Do not consider Pakistan as friendly nation: VK Singh

VK Singh

Jaipur | Union minister VK Singh cautioned against considering Pakistan as a friendly nation, saying it will be India’s “biggest weakness”.

“I was told in Barmer that a candidate has said that there is no danger from Pakistan,” the minister of state for external affairs told reporters at the BJP office here.

“This will be our biggest weakness if we consider a country, which is seen as a centre of terrorism and is engaged in proxy war against India, as a friendly nation,” Singh, the former Indian Army chief, said.

Responding to a question on allegations that the BJP was politicising the armed forces, he said the bravery of the forces has been praised in the past as well and there is no politics in it.

“Being a former chief of the Army, I can say that forces in the country are not involved in politics. They are apolitical. Whenever our forces showed their valour, be it in 1971, 1962 and 1965 or in 1999, their bravery has been praised,” he said.

“If such praises now are taken as politicisation of the forces, then I would humbly say that those who are saying this do not understand politics,” he added.

He said a country cannot progress if it doesn’t respect its soldiers. “No one is politicising the forces and there is no politics in the forces. Let the honour of the forces remain honour. There is no politics in it.”

“Army takes action on its level to dominate LoC and it is their responsibility to keep the borders safe. It involves risk and a mistake can cost (a soldier his) career. Forces do not talk about their operations. On the other hand one government comes and says that we as a government are with you. Our forces are getting this kind of support from the government in the last four and a half year,” he said.

On BJP chief Amit Shah’s claim about casualties in the Balakot air strike, the minister said that it was an estimate that came after National Technical Research Organisation reported there were 300 mobile phones active there before the strike.

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Addressing a rally in Bhopal at Ashok Gardens, he said, “Thakur says she had cursed ATS chief Hemant Karkare, who had given supreme sacrifice for the country and is considered a martyr. There would have been no need of surgical strikes if she had cursed Pakistan based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar.”

He said in a reference to the Pulwama attack mastermind Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar.

Digvijaya Singh further slammed PM Modi,” Prime Minister had said that terrorists were hunted even when they were hiding in hell. But I want to ask him where was he when Pulwama, Pathankot and Uri attacks happened in the country. Why we were not able to get rid of such attacks?”

“In our religion, we say “Har Har Mahadev” but our religious sentiments have been hurt by the BJP as they say Har Har Modi. We all know whose photo will appear on the screen if we type ‘feku’ (liar) on Google,” he added.

Digvijaya Singh will contest from Bhopal directly against BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Bhopal will go in voting on May 12, the sixth phase of voting.

The results of the voting will be announced on May 23.

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