With a number of Bharatiya Janata Social gathering leaders accusing him of “eulogising” Pervez Musharraf in his condolence message, senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Monday, February 6, 2023 requested if the previous Pakistan president was anathema to all patriotic Indians, why did the then BJP-led authorities negotiate a ceasefire with him in 2003 and signal a joint assertion in 2004.
Mr. Tharoor’s remarks got here after a number of BJP leaders accused the Congress of “Pakistan parasti (worship)” and Union Minister Jyoritiraditya Scindia requested if this was a part of the Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan with enemies.
“An Indian ‘national’ party’s leader first casts doubts on our soldiers’ act of bravery in Pulwama,” mr. Scindia stated, in an obvious reference to Congress chief Digvijaya Singh’s remarks not too long ago.
“Then another one eulogises Pervez Musharraf who was responsible for the Kargil war. Haath se haath jodo abhiyaan with enemies?” Mr. Scindia stated on Twitter on Monday.
Congress has launched the Haath Se Haath Jodo Abhiyan to unfold the message of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Apparently responding to the criticism by the BJP leaders, Mr. Tharoor tweeted, “Question to BJP leaders frothing at the mouth: if Musharraf was anathema to all patriotic Indians, why did the BJP Government negotiate a ceasefire with him in 2003 & sign the joint Vajpayee-Musharraf statement of 2004?” Was he not seen as a reputable peace companion then, the previous minister of state for exterior affairs requested.
In his condolence put up on Twitter, Mr. Tharoor stated former Pakistan president Basic (retd) Musharraf, who died on Sunday, was “once an implacable foe of India” however turned a “real force for peace” between 2002-2007.
His remarks drew the BJP’s ire which accused his get together of “eulogising” the architect of the Kargil Struggle.
Nonetheless, BJP MP Subramanian Swamy tweeted that the dying of former Pakistan President Gen. Musharraf is sorrowful for these like him who knew him personally.
“He came to power in Pakistan through a coup but was always anxious to find a way to peace with India. Of course bottom line is he was a Pakistani,” Swamy tweeted Monday.
Pakistan’s former navy ruler Musharraf died on Sunday in Dubai after battling an incurable illness. He was 79.
“‘Pervez Musharraf, Former Pakistani President, Dies of Rare Disease’: once an implacable foe of India, he became a real force for peace 2002-2007,” Mr. Tharoor stated in a tweet Sunday.
“I met him annually in those days at the @un & found him smart, engaging & clear in his strategic thinking. RIP,” the previous minister of state for exterior affairs stated.
In the meantime, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar additionally slammed Mr. Tharoor for his tweet.
“Nothing like a proper military thrashing for Fatcat Pak Dictator Generals to become a ‘force for peace’ and develop ‘clear strategic thinking’. Notwithstanding many lives lost n Intl laws violated n harm caused all around, these Generals will have their admiring fans in India (sic),” Mr. Chandrasekhar stated.
In one other tweet, he stated, “That a former Cong Foreign Min (a party that refused to celebrate Kargil Vijay Diwas till 2010) wud think that a Pak General who inflicted terror, a backstabbing conflict and tortured our Soldiers in violation of every Intl law, wud be a ‘force for peace’ – best describes Cong (sic).”
In a while Sunday, apparently responding to the criticism by BJP leaders, Mr. Tharoor tweeted, “I was raised in an India where you are expected to speak kindly of people when they die.” “Musharraf was an implacable enemy & was responsible for Kargil but he did work for peace with India, in his own interest, 2002-7. He was no friend but he saw strategic benefit in peace, as did we,” the Congress chief stated.
An architect of Kargil, a hero?, asks BJP
Tagging Mr. Tharoor’s earlier tweets, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla had stated, “Pervez Musharraf architect of Kargil, dictator, accused of heinous crimes who considered Taliban & Osama as ‘brothers’ & ‘heroes’ who refused to even take back bodies of his own dead soldiers is being hailed by Congress! Are you surprised? Again, Congress ki pak parasti!”
BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia additionally slammed Tharoor saying, “Sharm ek Sheikh to Sharm Kar Shashi. Misplaced priorities of a former external affairs minister.” “Congress eulogising a person who attacked our country during Kargil. Indians revere martyrs Capt Vikram Batra, Lt Manoj Pandey, Grn Yogendra Yadav, Rifleman Sanjay Kumar not Pervez,” he stated.
Musharraf, who lived in self-imposed exile within the UAE to keep away from prison fees in opposition to him in Pakistan, died at the American Hospital in Dubai.
He was affected by amyloidosis, a uncommon illness brought on by a build-up of an irregular protein referred to as amyloid in organs and tissues all through the physique, in response to his household.
Musharraf was born on August 11, 1943 in Delhi.
He assumed the put up of Chief Government after imposing martial legislation within the nation in 1999 and served because the president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.
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