Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 31: Accusing the BJP of double standards over yet another issue of J&K Police filing FIR against the Indian Army in Kashmir, NPP chairman and former minister Harsh Dev Singh lambasted the BJP for colluding with PDP in initiating legal action against the armed forces on one hand and pressing upon its second line leaders to protest against the move on the other.
Talking to media-persons here today Singh rebuked the BJP for surrendering once again over its tall slogans of ’56 inches chest of PM Modi’, ‘zero tolerance against terror’, etc merely for keeping its alliance intact with its Kashmir centric partner and the separatists in good humour.
Harsh Dev said that the ominous coalition had been appeasing the communal separatists and the stone-pelters who were overtly assaulting and manhandling the security personnel in Kashmir. He lamented that during the bizarre era of last three years, the revered Indian soldiers were consistently stoned, jeered, humiliated and even slapped which had never happened before. He said that the Indian Army had relentlessly protected our sovereignty and integrity but their victimization at the hands of anti-national elements in full public view had raised the question mark on the credibility of the BJP and its kernel philosophy of nationalism.
Referring to the Shopian episode a couple of days ago, he divulged that the mob comprising hundreds of maniacal saboteurs pelted stones on the convoy of 10 Garwal unit and tried to snatch a weapon of a JCO with the intention to lynch him. The Army exhibited an exemplary courage of exercising maximum restraint while countering the stone pelters but when the subversives crossed all the limits and posed a threat to the life of a soldier, it had no other option than to open a fire to disperse the crowd in the situation which called for an appropriate action under self defence, Harsh said.
He regretted that instead of encouraging the morale of the Army, the BJP partnered Government once again slapped FIR on Major Aditya and his unit under Sec 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 336 (endangering life) of the RPC for no reason.
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