Mumbai: The Shiv Sena, which has taken on the role of NDA's in-house opposition, took the government to task today for the murder and mutilation of two soldiers on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Senior leader Ramdas Kadam said Prime Minister Narendra Modi "should focus less on elections and more on security."
"After BJP came to power, there has been a line of martyrs," Mr Kadam said. The Prime Minister, he said, should say "how many jawans will be martyred and how many women will be widowed before we give a fitting reply to Pakistan".
The government, which came to power with a tough-on-terror image, is already under fire from the opposition.
"We did one surgical strike and Pakistan has replied with an answer that is 10 times of what we did," Mr Kadam said, echoing Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal's taunt: "When Hemraj was beheaded, Sushmaji said we will get 10 for one. I want to ask the Prime Minister, how many for two?"
AK Anthony, who was the defence minister in the UPA government, said such an attack had had happened "only once," in his eight-year term, "but in the last three years it has already happened thrice".
The CPM has questioned the efficacy of last year's surgical strikes across the Line of Control, conducted by the army after the terror attack in Uri. "It is clear that last year's surgical strike failed in its stated purpose to warn Pakistan," senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechury has said.
"After BJP came to power, there has been a line of martyrs," Mr Kadam said. The Prime Minister, he said, should say "how many jawans will be martyred and how many women will be widowed before we give a fitting reply to Pakistan".
The government, which came to power with a tough-on-terror image, is already under fire from the opposition.
"We did one surgical strike and Pakistan has replied with an answer that is 10 times of what we did," Mr Kadam said, echoing Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal's taunt: "When Hemraj was beheaded, Sushmaji said we will get 10 for one. I want to ask the Prime Minister, how many for two?"
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AK Anthony, who was the defence minister in the UPA government, said such an attack had had happened "only once," in his eight-year term, "but in the last three years it has already happened thrice".
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The CPM has questioned the efficacy of last year's surgical strikes across the Line of Control, conducted by the army after the terror attack in Uri. "It is clear that last year's surgical strike failed in its stated purpose to warn Pakistan," senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechury has said.
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