Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 2: Mocking the statement made by the National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah trying to underplay the Modi Government’s achievement in getting Masood Azhar declared as “global terrorist” by stating that the United Nations’ Security Council (UNSC) did not mention the Pulwama attack, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh, without naming anyone, said that the NC and other opposition leaders have, in their cynical haste to react against Modi, once again betrayed their poor understanding of procedures and the working of international institutions like the United Nations Organization (UNO).
Turning aside the contention that Pulwama attack does not find mention by the UN Security Council, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Modi Government’s efforts to get Masood Azhar declared as a global terrorist had begun much before the Pulwama attack happened and even the agenda item of the UNSC to discuss whether or not to declare Masood Azhar as a global terrorist was laid down much before the Pulwama attack. To that extent, he said, raking up this childish argument either betrays ignorance or deep sadist discomfiture.
For the last three to four years, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Modi Government had been very consistently and firmly following up the issue and the single most credit goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal outreach that successfully persuaded even those nations of the world to come around to India’s view point, which were earlier hesitant to accept India’s approach against terrorism and its sponsors from across the border. While countries like Pakistan and China were conditioned by their experience with the erstwhile UPA and Congress governments when they got away with an approach of duplicity by conveniently avoiding to walk the talk, this is for the first time that even Islamabad is constrained to learn that it is dealing with a Prime Minister called “Narendra Modi”, he said.
As for the past record of NC, Dr Jitendra Singh recalled, this is the same Party, which has from time to time, when out of power, directly or indirectly tried to rake up the issue of resolving the so-called Kashmir issue on the basis of the UN Resolution of 1948. Again, this smacks either of ignorance or mischief because one of the preconditions of UN resolution on Kashmir was that Pakistan would first withdraw from the parts of Jammu & Kashmir under its illegal occupation before any possible move to determine the will of the people, but since Pakistan failed to fulfill this condition, the resolution had since become invalid and infructuous, he said.
Taking a dig at the Congress and its allies like NC, Dr Jitendra Singh said, either its leaders have stopped studying the subject on which they speak or they believe that the people of this country have stopped studying.
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