New Delhi, India: Briefing a media conference at BJP headquarters, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley slammed Congress and asked the opposition to apologize for making fake theories of Hindu terror for political gains.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that the Congress should
Addressing a media briefing at BJP headquarters on Friday, Jaitley attacked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, which was led by the Congress, for its stand on Samjhauta blast case.
“Last week the Panchkula court gave the decision on the Samjhauta blast case of 2007. Since 2007, it was very clear that the state department of the United States would repeatedly provide us with information about the actual terrorists who were involved in that act. But apart from investigating on those lines, there was a theory of Hindu Terror and this slogan of Hindu Terrorism was given by Congress for a vote bank. They created this theory on fake evidence,” Jaitley said.
Taking a swipe at Congress leaders visiting temples, Jaitley said: “People who believed Hindus as terrorists are today busy showing their respect towards religion. People can never tolerate calling a whole section terrorist.”
He read out a few excerpts of the Panchkula court’s decision and
“Yet for the first time in history, the whole Hindu society has been defamed by creating this theory of Hindu terror. Congress and UPA are responsible for this. Society will not forgive them for this. Innocent people lost their lives but real culprits were not probed,” he added.
Accusing the Congress of defaming the Hindu society for electoral benefits, he said: “It is our accusation that for the political benefit the Hindu society was defamed through a fake theory. This is why Congress is not even giving a statement on this decision. It is time for them to seek forgiveness from the society.”
On Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s visit to Ayodhya, he said: “It is good they are going but should also accept that this is the real birthplace of Ram.”
On March 20, a special NIA court in Panchkula had acquitted the four suspects – Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan, and Rajinder Chaudhary – in the Samjhauta blast case.
On February 18, 2007, explosions hit the India-Pakistan border Samjhauta Express in Panipat area of Haryana and 68 people died in the blast, including 44 Pakistanis.
Out of the deceased, 33 were men, 19 women, and 16 children. Later, two unexploded bombs were also found from the site, India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) had said.
The Samjhauta Express commonly called the Friendship Express is a bi-weekly train that runs between Delhi and Attari in India and Lahore in Pakistan on Wednesdays and Sundays.
The word Samjhauta means “agreement”, “accord” and “compromise” in both Hindi and Urdu.
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