Congress leader Manish Tewari today targeted Union Minister and former Army chief VK Singh, asking him to quit instead of expressing his disgust after he represented the government at the Pakistan national day reception in New Delhi.
Mr Tewari said in the past, ministers had refused to attend Pakistan events.
Mr Tewari tweeted,
After attending the Pakistan National Day reception at the Pakistan High Commission yesterday, General Singh had issued a series of tweets defining "disgust" and "duty", indicating that he may have been unhappy at being deputed to it.
While the third tweet had said, "A job or service allocated," the fourth one said, "The force that binds one morally or legally to one's obligations".
General Singh had told reporters after attending the reception that he was asked by the government to represent it at the function.
Congress leader PC Chacko slammed the government for not having a clear cut policy on the issue of Pakistan and Kashmir.
"The fact that Minister of State VK Singh was cutting a sorry figure in the crowd yesterday, it shows that there is no policy for Government of India in such matters. Pakistan celebrating their national day and also inviting all anti-Indian people there, whether it is Hurriyat (Conference leaders) or some other groups it is most unfortunate. I know, such people who hold extreme views against India are being invited.
"Of course when there is an invitation for the National Day of Pakistan, government of India has to respond, but a MoS and that too a former Army General was out to such great difficulty shows that the government does not have a clear cut policy on such matters," he said.
"Those who were present there were the people who do not have any interest in people of India. If there was an invitation or a protocol, it could have been politely declined.
JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said statements given by Singh after attending the meeting were uncalled for as the Common Minimum Programme of the BJP-PDP government in Jammu and Kashmir talks of having a dialogue with the separatists.
Senior BJP leader Subramaniam Swamy slammed Manish Tewari for his comments on General Singh.
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