BENGALURU: Union minister of state for external affairs M J Akbar on Tuesday, reacting to the statements of Congress leaders with regard to historical facts relating to Kashmir and other issues said: “There is serious history deficiency in the IQ of Congress leaders. I think why don’t we all collect fund and send some good books.”
Akbar was reacting to the statements made by Congress senior leaders Saifuddin Soz and Randeep Singh Surjewala on issues pertaining to Kashmir.
Soz in a controversial statement had said that former home minister during independence Sardar Vallabhai Patel wanted to give away Kashmir to
Pakistan and that more civilians in Kashmir were killed by armed forces than vis-a-versa.
Reacting to this, the union minister said that Soz was trying to re-invent history in the “service of his party” and such statements provide further evidence that the Congress party is simply not responsible enough to be anywhere near power.
“It is an utterly irresponsible statement. Pointing out that the Congress leader had said that the
Indian Army had killed more civilians than terrorists. I simply could not believe it. This attack on our patriotic and brave forces has become a pattern. When our Indian forces crossed the border in pursuit of terrorists, their valor and their actions were questioned by the leaders of the Congress party,” said Akbar.
He went on to add that terrorists do not come in uniforms and come in civilian cloths and therefore when you seek out and eliminate this barbaric danger to our nation.
“How can the Congress leadership come to the defence of terrorism and terrorists?” retorted Akbar.
Meanwhile, Akbar went on dismiss the
All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Randeep Singh Surjewala comment that Modi is more cruel than Aurangzeb by citing that the party knows little about history and historical facts.
Akbar was in Bengaluru to give a talk at a private institution on the
Emergency and its impact on the nation during that dark phase of Indian history.
He equated the emergency clamped down in 1975 by then prime minister
Indira Gandhi as similar to the
Jallianwala Bagh massacre under British regime during the pre-Independence era.