The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expressed disappointment after US President Barack Obama didn’t make any direct reference to Pakistan and Lashker-e-Tayeba (LeT) for carrying out the terror strikes in Mumbai two years ago.
Senior leaders of the BJP said that Obama had missed an opportunity to connect with the people of India by naming the perpetrators of 26/11 terror strikes but the US President chose to remain silent. BJP members also said that Obama’s words were neither backed with intent nor action.
“It was the first address by the US President in Mumbai which saw the biggest terror attack on India. His statement was a complete disappointment as the world and the United States had proof that the attack was planned on Pakistani soil by its intelligence agencies and organisations supported by the Pakistani establishment. He had words which were not backed with action and intent,” said Rajiv Pratap Rudy, BJP spokesperson.
Rudy said Obama had missed an opportunity to strike a chord with Indians. “We expected that the first statement of the US President was stronger and much more vociferous,” said Rudy. The BJP leader also said that the core group of BJP is expected to meet on November 7 at the residence of senior leader LK Advani to decide on the issues that would be raised by Sushma Swaraj, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, when she will meet Obama on the afternoon of November 8.
While criticising Obama for not blaming Pakistan, members of the BJP also attacked the government for bending forward and providing a bailout package to the US President to create jobs for American citizens.
“India is bending forward to please the US government. The US-India relation has been swaying back and forth and there is no clarity for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council. The BJP believes that both the Prime Minister and the Indian diplomats will have to answer a lot to the people of India as it seems that the government is providing a political bail out to Obama following a poor show by the Democrats in the recent elections in US,” Rudy said.
