Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s quest for “short term political gain” has “created space for terrorists in Kashmir”, leading to incidents like the terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims on Monday, which left seven people dead.+
The Congress leader then tellingly used a formula, the kind PM Modi favours to describe things, to talk about the fallout of Modi’s BJP allying with the PDP in Kashmir to form the state government there.
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Modi’s policies have created space for terrorists in Kashmir. Grave strategic blow for India#AmarnathTerrorAttack
3:27 PM – 12 Jul 2017
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Rahul said the BJP-PDP alliance has “cost India massively”.
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Short term political gain for Modi from PDP alliance has cost India massively
3:28 PM – 12 Jul 2017
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He said the PM’s “personal gain” has meant a “strategic loss” for India, as well as the “sacrifice of innocent Indian blood”.
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Modi’s personal gain= India’s strategic loss + sacrifice of innocent Indian blood
3:29 PM – 12 Jul 2017
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In his third tweet, Rahul is likely referring to the India-China border standoff in Sikkim, when he talks about “India’s strategic loss”.
On Monday, after the attack, Rahul said the PM “needs to accept responsibility” for the attack on the pilgrims.
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This is a grave & unacceptable security lapse. The PM needs to accept responsibility and never allow it to happen again
11:23 PM – 10 Jul 2017
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Last week, Rahul tweeted wondering why the PM has been silent on China’s border encroachment in Sikkim.
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Why is our Prime Minister silent on China?
2:41 PM – 7 Jul 2017
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He accused the PM of hypocrisy when it comes to China, and defended a meeting he had last week with the Chinese envoy.
The Congress leader has taken to Twitter a lot lately to criticise Modi. Last week, he called the PM “weak”, for accepting the US referring to Kashmir as “Indian-administered Kashmir” and for not bringing up the contentious H-1B visa issue.
“‘India has a weak PM’, he tweeted.
In its statement on June 26, designating Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin a ” global terrorist “, the US referred to the northern state as “Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir”.
The Centre last Thursday defended the US’s use of the term saying it only affirmed India’s position that Salahuddin is involved in “cross-border” terrorism.
