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India Today
6 days ago
- Politics
- India Today
Congress says MPs, terrorists both roaming; BJP slams 'atrocious comparison'
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh attacked the government over its handling of the Pahalgam terror attack and claimed that the party chose to stay silent on issues being raised by the Opposition. Jairam Ramesh said that the terrorists responsible for the Pahalgam terror attack are still 'roaming', before he made a similar comment about global delegations of MPs 'roaming'. The BJP hit back sharply, calling the Congress leader's remarks 'atrocious'.advertisementJairam Ramesh on Thursday said, 'These terrorists of Pahalgam were involved in four attacks in eighteen months and still they are roaming around here and there. Our MPs are roaming and terrorists are also roaming. We are asking these questions seriously.'He further accused the BJP of focusing its attacks only on the Congress. 'The BJP only targets the Congress party. Their attack is on the Congress party; it should be on the terrorists. Action should be taken against Pakistan. The terrorists should be arrested,' he said. Ramesh added, 'The missiles that are being launched every day are being launched against the Congress party. Everyday missiles are being fired against Congress, one missile name is Nishikant Dubey, another is... they have several missiles. These are all distraction.' Reacting to Ramesh's remarks, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla posted a video of the Congress MP and said, 'Jairam Ramesh makes the most atrocious comparison. Compares our MPs in All Party Delegations exposing Pakistan to terrorists. This is how Congress undermines not just our Military Strike (Op Sindoor) by calling it Chut Put but also our diplomatic strike. Should Parliament not act on him?'ON PARLIAMENT SPECIAL SESSIONadvertisementJairam Ramesh claimed the government may call a special Parliament session on June 25-26 to mark 50 years since the Emergency, accusing it of using the occasion to distract from current said, 'It is being heard that a special session can be called June 25-26 because it is the 50th anniversary of the Emergency. Undeclared Emergency has been in force in our country since 2014. He wants to call a special session for what happened 50 years ago? To divert attention from today's questions, they are talking about it.'Ramesh said that the Congress has been demanding an all-party meeting and a special session to discuss the recent Pahalgam terror attack and other national security concerns. 'We are asking for special issue to decide how to tackle these issues together, and you're silent. But you want special session for 50 years of Emergency imposition,' he June 25, 1975, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had declared Emergency, curbing civil liberties, jailing opposition leaders and imposing press claimed the government has ignored requests made on May 10 by both the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, asking for a resolution on the current security situation and on Pakistan-occupied also criticised the PM's silence on former US President Donald Trump's claims about brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan. 'You are silent on what Trump said, you gave clean chit to China, you are silent on ceasefire,' he Watch
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
‘Our MPs are roaming, terrorists also roaming,' says Jairam Ramesh in fresh swipe at all-party teams
Congress communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh, who has been consistently questioning the government over Operation Sindoor and the all-party delegations sent by it abroad, triggered a fresh war of words Thursday with remarks suggesting that just as the terrorists behind Palagam had not been caught, the teams holding meetings in world capitals were 'roaming' about. The seven delegations include several leaders of the Congress, with MP Shashi Tharoor leading one of the teams. Speaking to ANI, Ramesh, who is also a Rajya Sabha MP, said Thursday: 'It has been one month since the attack in Pahalgam in April. They (the terrorists) are still roaming here and there… Our MPs are roaming and terrorists are also roaming. We are asking these questions seriously. They (the government) do not answer these questions. The BJP only targets the Congress party. Their attack… should be on the terrorists… on Pakistan. The terrorists should be arrested.' The BJP slammed Ramesh, saying his remarks 'comparing our MPs to terrorists' were 'most atrocious'. Party national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said: 'This is how Congress undermines not just our Military Strike (Op Sindoor) by calling it Chut Put (referring to a remark by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge) but also our diplomatic strike.' Why should Parliament not take action against Ramesh, Poonawalla asked. BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari posted: 'Rahul Gandhi's right hand Jairam Ramesh compares Members Of Parliament with Terrorists!' On Wednesday, the Congress had publicly rebuked Tharoor for suggesting that the surgical strikes under the Modi government were the first of their kind, while addressing a meeting in Panama as part of his delegation. Congress spokesperson Udit Raj said the UPA government too had carried out such strikes but not made political capital from the same, and added: 'I could prevail upon PM Modi to declare you (Tharoor) as super spokesperson of BJP, even foreign minister before (you land) in India.' On Thursday, Congress Media and Publicity Department chairperson Pawan Khera, who had reposted Udit Raj's post on Wednesday, shared an extract from Tharoor's book The Paradoxical Prime Minister, which criticised 'the shameless exploitation of the 2016 surgical strikes'. 'I agree with what Dr Shashi Tharoor wrote about surgical strikes in his book in 2018,' Khera said. In a sharp reaction Thursday, Tharoor said: '… For those zealots fulminating about my supposed ignorance of Indian valour across the LoC in the past — I was clearly and explicitly speaking only about reprisals for terrorist attacks and not about previous wars… My remarks were preceded by a reference to the several attacks that have taken place in recent years alone, during which previous Indian responses were both restrained and constrained by our responsible respect for the LoC and the IB,' said the Congress MP. 'But as usual, critics and trolls are welcome to distort my views and words as they see fit. I genuinely have better things to do,' Tharoor added. #WATCH | Delhi: Congress MP Jairam Ramesh says, 'It is being heard that a special session can be called on 25th and 26th June because it is the 50th anniversary of the Emergency. Undeclared Emergency has been in force in our country since 2014. He wants to call a special session… — ANI (@ANI) May 29, 2025 In his remarks to ANI, Ramesh also targeted the BJP government for not calling a special session of Parliament to discuss the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, as several Opposition leaders have been demanding. 'It is being heard that a special session can be called on June 25 and 26 because it is the 50th anniversary of the Emergency. An undeclared Emergency has been in force in our country since 2014. He (Modi) wants to call a special session for what happened 50 years ago? To divert attention from today's questions, they are talking about it… You are quiet on what President Donald Trump is saying. You have given a clean chit to China and you are quiet. Why are you politicising Operation Sindoor when the Opposition is talking of unity?' Ramesh said.
Hans India
6 days ago
- Politics
- Hans India
BJP tears into Jairam Ramesh for ‘linking' Pahalgam terrorists with all-party delegation
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday came down heavily on senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, accusing him of drawing a 'disgusting comparison' between the terrorists who executed Pahalgam terror attack and the all-party delegation, which is on a mission to more than 30 countries to expose the rogue nation -- Pakistan. BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla tore into the Congress General Secretary for hurling insult at the all-party delegation and also undermining its mission. Taking strong objection to his analogy, the BJP leader wondered why the Parliament must not act against him for crossing all limits and going to the extent of drawing an atrocious comparison between terrorists and lawmakers. The BJP leader, in a video message, recalled past instances of how the Congress attempted to diminish and undermine the military strikes under Operation Sindoor and also accused him of speaking in the language of Pakistan to give India's enemy, an advantage in building an anti-India narrative. 'Earlier, the Congress undermined our military strike (Operation Sindoor) by calling it 'Chut Put' war and now it mocks our diplomatic strike,' Poonawalla said and also shared a video clip. 'Jairam Ramesh makes the most atrocious comparison. He compares MPs in all-party delegation to terrorists,' he also said. Another BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari also hit out at Jairam Ramesh for allegedly drawing an analogy between terrorists and Parliamentarians, currently on multi-nation tour to expose Pakistan. 'Rahul Gandhi's right hand Jairam Ramesh compares Members of Parliament with Terrorist!" he wrote in a post on X. The political storm over Jairam Ramesh comes amidst rumblings within the grand old party over its MP Shashi Tharoor leading India's diplomatic offensive against Pakistan over its brazen support to global terror networks and also abetting it on the Indian soil. The ugly spat between Udit Raj and Shashi Tharoor played out in the public, with both taking potshots at each other. Jairam Ramesh, the in-charge of Communications of Congress party allegedly said that terrorists who carried out terror attack in Pahalgam were roaming freely, despite being directly involved in other attacks in the valley, in past one year. Sarcastically slamming the Centre, he said that these terrorists were roaming freely while Parliamentarians were also wandering across the globe. This comment riled up the BJP, which launched a scathing attack at the Congress Rajya Sabha MP and accused him of standing up with Pakistan.
