Modi doing politics over national security: Opposition

  • | Thursday | 28th March, 2019

Das said the achievement was very important in terms of safeguarding national security. Therefore, the saffron party went back to politicizing national security. But in the same tweet, he wrote: “We have always been proud of your (scientists’) achievement. “BJP should talk about poverty elimination, increasing the spending on health and education like Rahul Gandhi is doing,” Marandi said. It is not a new achievement,” state Congress chief Ajoy Kumar said over the phone from New Delhi.

Ranchi: Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has successfully hit a satellite in space with an anti-satellite missile on Wednesday, opposition parties in Jharkhand criticized BJP for politicizing national security ahead of parliamentary elections “The DRDO and ISRO achieved a similar feat in 2012. It is not a new achievement,” state Congress chief Ajoy Kumar said over the phone from New Delhi. Kumar claimed the PM’s announcement was another effort to shift the spotlight away from issues like unemployment that the Congress is highlighting.“BJP fell short of ideas after Rahul Gandhi announced the minimum income guarantee scheme. Therefore, the saffron party went back to politicizing national security. Also, BJP MP Manoj Tiwary sported uniform of defence personnel, forgetting that it has to be earned after a lot of struggle,” Kumar, an ex-IPS officer, said.Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ( JMM ) working president Hemant Soren congratulated scientists of DRDO and ISRO on Twitter. But in the same tweet, he wrote: “We have always been proud of your (scientists’) achievement. However, the PM creating a hyperbole out of it... demonstrates his pre-poll restlessness and tension.”Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik ( JVM-P ) chief went a notch higher. “The BJP and the Prime Minister are gripped by war hysteria , unmindful of the harsh truth that in a war, you can only defeat and not win,” Babulal Marandi said here.Marandi said the Modi government was unable to set-up a single factory in five years. “BJP should talk about poverty elimination, increasing the spending on health and education like Rahul Gandhi is doing,” Marandi said. The former CM added that his party, which is a part of the grand alliance, will fight the polls over issues of unemployment and inequitable development.Chief minister Raghubar Das congratulated Modi, the Union government and the country’s space scientists. Das said the achievement was very important in terms of safeguarding national security.

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