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BJP hits back at Pak PM; accuses him of interference
New Delhi, Oct 03: BJP today took strong exception to Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali`s criticism of BJP for `using normalisation of ties with Islamabad as a poll slogan`, dismissing the charge as `baseless` and terming it as an `interference in India`s political affairs.`
New Delhi, Oct 03: BJP today took strong exception to
Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali's criticism
of BJP for "using normalisation of ties with Islamabad as a
poll slogan", dismissing the charge as "baseless" and terming
it as an "interference in India's political affairs."
Describing Jamali's allegations as "completely baseless
and false", party president M Venkaiah Naidu in a statement
here said it was extraordinary for the Prime Minister of
Pakistan to comment on a specific political party in India and
"it clearly amounts to interference in India's internal
political affairs."
He said if the process of normalisation of Indo-Pak
relations has stalled, "the blame rests fully and squarely
with Pakistan. The whole world knows that the reason for it
lies in Pakistan's refusal to dismantle its infrastructure of
cross-border terrorism targeting India.
"Pakistan cannot pretend before the United States and the
rest of the international community that it is interested in
normalising relations with India and, at the same time,
continue to sponsor the campaign of terrorist killings in
India."
Refuting the charge that BJP "made a good show" in last
year's assembly elections in Gujarat in the wake of "massacre
of innocent Muslims", he said this statement is clearly aimed
at inciting communal sentiments in India.
"Those who have no democracy, those who practice theocracy and those who have wiped out minorities in their own country have no right to comment on a democratically elected government in an Indian state," the BJP president said.
Bureau Report
"Those who have no democracy, those who practice theocracy and those who have wiped out minorities in their own country have no right to comment on a democratically elected government in an Indian state," the BJP president said.
Bureau Report