Under attack from the Congress on the Kandahar episode, BJP today sought to turn the tables on the UPA's lead party saying it “did not utter a single word” against the consensus arrived at an all-party meeting to release the terrorists.
“When the NDA government convened the all party meet to resolve the crisis, Congress was also present but it did not utter even a single word of protest against the consensus to ensure safe release of all passengers,” BJP president Rajnath Singh said here. “Congress has (now) gone ballistic on Kandahar issue where it was a party to the decision taken. It has completely forgotten its own misdeeds in Charar-e-Sharief where the then Congress government ensured safe passage to five dreaded terrorists that too in a situation where there were no hostages,” he said.
Those who negotiated with terrorists who had laid siege to the Charar-e-Sharief shrine in Srinagar in 1995, are today blaming the BJP for a decision which was taken in a crisis situation, Singh charged. "Congress needs to keep in mind the age-old adage that people living in glass houses should not throw stones," he quipped.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have persistently attacked L K Advani on the Kandahar episode.
