Twitter fumes as Mahua Moitra calls Pulwama suicide bomber ‘20-year-old boy’, confuses Balakot with Pulwama
Mahua Moitra's speech in parliament had gone viral.
Mahua Moitra, the toast of ‘liberal’ ecosystem after her viral speech on ‘early signs of fascism’ which were met with charges of plagiarism is likely to face more controversy over her recent comments.
In an interview to a news channel, the TMC MP appeared to confuse Pulwama and Balakot and called the suicide bomber terrorist who took the lives of 40 jawans a '20-year-old boy'.
She claimed that the government didn’t provide security forces in Balakot with ‘air cover’ and didn’t ‘airlift them’. She went on to say that govt didn’t shut the road which led to a ’20-year-old boy driving an SUV into a bus full of jawans’.
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She said: “You had the Uri incident which happened in November 2016 where you clearly had an intelligence failure. the same thing in Balakot. You didn't airlift them, you didn't shut the right side of the road so you had a 20-year-old boy drive an SUV into the cavalcade.”
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For the uninitiated, including our honourable MPs, Balakot is a place in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, which housed a terror camp masquerading as madrassa. Meanwhile, Pulwama is a place in Jammu and Kashmir in India where a terror attack took the lives of 40 CRPF jawans.
Reacting to the video, outspoken Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy wrote: “Is anyone surprised?” Other Twitter users also expressed their disdain.