The Asim Munir-led Pakistani regime must be in a state of ecstasy.
Now, we can’t afford to blame them, courtesy of our highly esteemed lawmakers who are engaged in a game of mudslinging right on the august floor of the Parliament.
At a time when unity is the need of the hour, the Narendra Modi-helmed dispensation and the Opposition led by Rahul Gandhi are leaving no stone unturned to unleash a volley of salvos on one another over the Pahalgam mayhem, Operation Sindoor, and now Operation Mahadev.
It’s a disdain that at a time when the incumbent government and the ambitious Opposition should be displaying a show of unity, they are stooping low by resorting to a filthy game of supremacy.
Stringent patriotism would send the author to the gallows yet one shouldn’t be hesitant to laud the camaraderie, politicians cutting across party lines have exhibited in Pakistan over the acrimonious relations with India.
But on the contrary, what are we presenting to the rest of the world? Just a shameless desperation to make political capital over the brutal killings of 26 innocent people.
Home Minister Amit Shah castigates the Congress over its jeering during the speech of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav blames the Pahalgam assault on intelligence failure.
He even goes to the extent of smelling a rat in the strange coincidence between Operation Mahadev and the Operation Sindoor debate in the Parliament.
The suspicion on the nationality of the terrorists behind the dastardly Pahalgam extermination smacks of an approach not befitting a person holding an office of utmost gravity.
Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, goes to the extent of castigating the government for surrendering to Pakistan after 30 minutes while reacting to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement on Operation Sindoor.
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee doesn’t let go of a single opportunity to embark on a mission broadside against the Prime Minister over his ‘meek surrender’ to the condescension of US President Donald Trump.
The ongoing debate on Operation Sindoor is turning out to be a high-voltage drama of intense animosity, all in a bid to gain at the polling booths.
Banerjee’s party colleague Sagarika Ghose launches a verbal assault on Modi stating, “On ‘Operation Sindoor’, PM Modi said that he has sindoor in his veins, not blood. We are not ready to accept that. We say the Prime Minister doesn’t have sindoor in his veins; he only has politics, and more politics, running through them. If he truly had sindoor in his veins, the terrorists wouldn’t have been able to enter Pahalgam. It was your lapse that allowed them to do so.”
Shah also invokes the Batla House incident in September 2008 while taking potshots at how Congress leader Salman Khurshid wept for slain terrorists.
Jabs and counterjabs – that’s the key feature of the Parliament discussion on a sensitive subject, which, on the contrary, should have brought adversaries under the same roof.
Instead, what we are a witness to is a disgraceful battle of antipathy much to the gratification of our neighbours.
Not called for.
