Surgical-strikes video is BJP's attempt to distract people: Mayawati

29 Jun 2018 Evaluate

Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati said that the surgical strikes video released in public domain is nothing but an attempt by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to distract people. Mayawati's remark comes days after the Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government of using the surgical strikes for political gains after a video of the same was released.

Mayawati said that ‘Releasing video of surgical strike is nothing but an attempt by this (BJP) Government to distract people from their enormous failures before 2019. If they did it with intention of showing proof, then why did they not release video when strike was carried out?’

On a related note, Congress leader Randeep Surjewala had said that the BJP 'shamelessly' used the surgical strikes for their benefit during the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh. He has said that the nation needs to be cautioned, whenever Modi Government starts failing, whenever Amit Shah's BJP starts losing, they misuse the valour of the Army for their political benefit..

On Wednesday, the video footage of the September 2016 surgical strikes was released in public domain. The strikes were conducted by the Indian Army in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to the Uri terror attack wherein 18 Army personnel were killed.

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