Congress chief and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi.
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Replying to a query on the assault on the Indian Air Drive’s convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, Channi stated, ”’Yeh stuntbaazi ho rahi hai, hamle nahi ho rahe’ (These are all stunts, not assaults)”
Congress chief Charanjit Singh Channi on Sunday known as the Poonch terror assault wherein an IAF soldier was killed and 4 have been injured, a ”stunt” meant to make the BJP win the Lok Sabha elections.
The comment by the previous Punjab chief minister and Congress candidate Jalandhar parliamentary constituency triggered a row with Union Minister Anurag Thakur asking the Congress management to hunt an apology from Channi for insulting troopers with this deplorable assertion.
BJP chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa known as Channi’s assertion appalling and disrespectful in the direction of troopers.
Replying to a query on the assault on the Indian Air Drive’s convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch, Channi stated, “Yeh stuntbaazi ho rahi hai, hamle nahi ho rahe’ (These are all stunts, not assaults).” “Every time elections are close to, such stunts are carried out to make the BJP win. There isn’t a reality in it,” he stated whereas replying to the query in Jalandhar.
Channi is the Congress candidate from the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency.
“The BJP is aware of learn how to play with folks’s lives and our bodies,” he additional alleged.
One soldier was killed and 4 have been injured as terrorists ambushed an Indian Air Drive (IAF) convoy in Poonch district on Saturday, three weeks forward of polling in Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency.
The officers suspect the involvement of the identical group of terrorists who ambushed troops in adjoining Bufliaz on December 21 final 12 months, leaving 4 troopers lifeless and three injured.
Union Minister Thakur strongly condemned Channi’s remarks and requested the Congress whether or not it should insult troopers to win elections.
He requested Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and occasion president Mallikarjun Kharge to hunt an apology from Channi.
“They insult our Military and query the aptitude of our Military,” stated Thakur, who was in Jalandhar on Sunday.
“Will the Congress insult our courageous troopers to win elections,” he requested.
Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar additionally condemned Channi’s remarks as ”shameful”.
“Ghastly assertion by CWC member Channi belittling the valour of our courageous troopers isn’t any much less against the law and an insult to the nation. Channi’s shameful assertion on the assault on our Air Drive personnel in Poonch calling their valour as a stunt exhibits the chapter and frustration of Channi,” he stated.
“The nation won’t forgive him. He ought to cling his head in disgrace. The Congress and its allies ought to come clear on this concern. They need to publicly disassociate from his assertion and ask him to apologise to the nation instantly,” Jakhar stated in a publish on X.
BJP chief Sirsa stated, ”I condemn Charanjit Singh Channi’s assertion of calling the martyrdom of an IAF personnel in Kashmir ’stuntbaazi’.” ”Congress is saying that he was martyred due to elections. This mentality is not only appalling however disrespectful to those that serve our nation,” he stated.
“Pakistan and Rahul Gandhi proceed to help one another whereas Congress is belittling the sacrifice of our Jawans,” Sirsa stated in a publish on X.
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