Kolkata: Hitting out at BJP president AmitShah for his criticism of opposition parties which questionedairstrikes in Pakistan, the TMC Sunday said the saffron partyleader should refrain from "lecturing others" on patriotism ashe was a "proponent of divisive and hatred politics."
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should stop takingcredit for the airstrike as the armed forces belong to India,not to Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Shah, TrinamoolCongress (TMC) national spokesperson Derek O'Brien said.
"Amit Shah and the BJP are the nastiest proponents of divisive and hatred politics. We will not listen to his lectures on patriotism. Our armed forces belong to India, not to Modi-Shah's BJP, " Brien, who is also a TMC parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha, said.
Those who had cowered down during the Independencemovement are giving sermons on patriotism, O' Brien stated.
"Khaki-chaddi wearing men who were hiding under desks during the entire Independence movement are now handing outcertificates of patriotism. Thanks. But no thanks," he said inan apparent reference to the RSS, the ideological parent ofthe saffron party.
Shah on Saturday said the ones who did not have thecourage to give a befitting response to terrorists and avengethe killing of soldiers, when in power, were raising doubts on the recent air strike for "cheap politics" and their statementshave made Pakistan happy.
"The armed forces have said in a press conference thatthey have conducted an airstrike and eliminated scores ofterrorists. Can anyone have doubts about it? You should desist
from such cheap politics," Shah said addressing the BJP's'Vijay Sankalp' motorbike rally in Madhya Pradesh.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursdaydemanded evidence of the pre-emptive strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed training camps in Pakistan by the Indian Air Force. She also said that the opposition parties wanted to know the details of the operation.
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