Shiv Sena said the RSS and the BJP held the erstwhile Manmohan Singh government responsible for every terror attack in his tenure.
A day after the BJP and Shiv Sena announced a seat-sharing pact for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Maharashtra, the latter on Tuesday said "riots and terror attack should not become means to win elections" as it charged various parties for politics over Pulwama attack.
At least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and five injured in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14 when a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into their bus in Pulwama district.
This comes a day after the BJP and Shiv Sena Monday announced a seat-sharing pact for the ensuing Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Maharashtra. The announcement was made in Mumbai by BJP president Amit Shah and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at a joint press conference in the night, shortly after Shah flew in from Jaipur.
The Sena, an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre and in Maharashtra, said that the Sangh (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and the BJP held the erstwhile Manmohan Singh government responsible for every terror attack in his tenure.
"So it should be understood what they mean when someone says it is the responsibility of the current Prime Minister to destroy terrorism," the Uddhav Thackeray-led party remarked in an editorial in its mouthpiece, "Saamana".
It said that while intelligence agencies are able to trace the e-mail that there is a threat to the Prime Minister's life from "Naxalites in Pune", they have no clue how a bus carrying CRPF jawans is attacked in broad daylight.
The editorial also attacked various elements for targeting Kashmiris living outside Jammu and Kashmir in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack. Drawing a comparison with anti-Sikh riots following the death of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, it said the Congress party is still paying the price for that.
"A few days ago, a political accusation was made that there would be terror attacks and the elections would be won by carrying out small counter-attacks. People in power should not behave in a manner that these accusations carry weight. People's feeling will come out and it will be difficult to control them. Riots and terror attacks should not become a means to win elections and if anybody is doing that, may God give them better sense," the Marathi daily said.
In another editorial on Monday, the Shiv Sena said no political "wave" had ever solved the Kashmir issue or stopped the killing of soldiers. It was not the time to launch a "surgical strike" against political opponents, a Monday editorial in "Saamana" said.
The Sena said while the government patted itself for "isolating" Pakistan at the international level, the neighbouring country was still carrying out terror attacks on Indian soil.
"The country has seen waves of anger and political triumphs, but it neither solved the Kashmir issue nor stopped the killing of soldiers," it noted.
Referring to the Indian Army's surgical strikes in 2016 on seven terror launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) as a response to an attack on its base in Uri, it said the action was followed by "chest thumping" on how a lesson was taught to Pakistan.
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