Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh Wednesday lashed out at the Congress and the TDP for "hurting" the morale of the armed forces by casting aspersions on the surgical strikes on the terror camps in Pakistan.
Addressing an election rally in support of the BJP at Avanigadda in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, he said the Indian Air Force stormed into Pakistan and conducted surgical strikes after the Phulwama terror attack in which over 40 CRPF personnel lost their lives.
The erstwhile Congress-led government never took any retaliatory action when terrorists struck. But, after the Phulwama terror attack, our Air Force went into Pakistani territory and eliminated terrorists in surgical strikes.
"But the Congress and the TDP have been critical of our surgical strikes, hurting the morale of our armed forces, the Home Minister said.
The BJP government would never allow terrorists or economic offenders to go scot free, he asserted.
Singh said non-performing assets touched Rs 3 lakh crore during the Congress 55-year rule.
People like Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya cheated banks and royally roamed in the country without any fear. Only after the BJP came to power, they fled the country. But we will not leave them, he added.
The Home Minister dubbed the minimum income scheme Nyay a fake promise of the Congress.
From Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi.. they raised the garibi hatao slogan but achieved nothing. Now, Rahul Gandhi is singing the same song. The Narendra Modi government took a slew of measures to eradicate poverty, Singh added.
The Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh was usurping the Central government schemes and branding them as its own, the Home Minister alleged.
State BJP president Kanna Lakshmi Narayana, BJP national secretary Sunil Deodhar and other senior leaders attended.
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