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Don't play politics over death of soldiers: BJP to Congress

Piyush Goyal says, the BJP never questioned the way Army worked when they were in the opposition

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A day after the Congress expressed "deep concern" over increasing terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "personally supervise" operations against attackers of Sunjuwan Army camp in Jammu, the BJP slammed it for "playing politics" over deaths of soldiers.

Criticising Congress for making the death of soldiers in Sunjuwan terror attack a political issue, union minister Piyush Goyal said, "It is unfortunate that Congress is making politics out of the death of our soldiers."

Goyal said, the BJP never questioned the way Army worked when they were in the opposition.

"The Congress even insulted soldiers, who conducted surgical strikes," said Goyal adding, "The death of our soldiers is painful. The country should be together and support our soldiers."

On Saturday, Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala had said that it was a matter of deep concern that 14 major terror attacks have taken place on the Army in Jammu and Kashmir since 2014, after the NDA government came to power.

"There have been 206 terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir alone and 382 Army personnel have been killed in the last four years. Fourteen soldiers have been killed in the last 31 days," Surjewala said.

Recalling how Modi as Gujarat chief minister had hit out at the UPA government even as anti-terror operations were underway during the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Surjewala said, "Like Modiji, we will not make any political comment. We are with the government and the Army."

Criticising Modi government's approach, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said the issue of repeated strikes on security forces needed to be looked into as it made India look "weak" after such attacks.

"It needs to be looked at seriously that why such attacks are happening on the bases of our security forces, their camps. This happens nowhere. There are several countries exposed to terror threats, but none of them feels as weak, as helpless as we seem to be today," said the former union minister.

"The same army camp was attacked in 2003 as well. There were intelligence inputs then about the attack. This is something that no nation will feel proud about," he added.

The disgruntled BJP leader said bullets were being fired from across the border, notwithstanding Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's warning that India "won't count bullets, if attacked".

"Every day bullets are being fired (from Pakistan). Our people are dying. This should not be tolerated," Sinha said.

Choosing not to join issues, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday condemned the terror attack and wrote on Twitter: "I strongly condemn the terror attack on our Army camp in Jammu in which 6 Indians have been martyred. All Indians, across political lines, stand united with our Army men and women. My prayers and thoughts are with the families of those killed and injured."

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