An aggressive Congress took on the BJP-led NDA government and demanded that the Narendra Modi government should convene a special Parliament session to discuss the security situation in India post the Uri attack, where terrorists killed 18 Army personnel.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the “special session of Parliament should be called immediately and also the most favoured nation status to Pakistan should be taken away”. The Congress also demanded that Pakistan must be declared as a terrorist state. Imposing economic sanctions against the neighbouring country was also mooted by the Congress.
After the Uri incident, the Congress has taken on the government asking them to come clean as to what is the action they are proposing to take. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari had earlier said that ‘this is the weakest government which the country has ever seen. Russia is having joint military exercises with Pakistan. China is investing in Pakistan and Iran is talking about ports’. The Congress has also stated that there is absolutely no coherent foreign policy that this government is following.
The Congress also maintained that there should be hectic lobbying across the world with every major power which remotely has a link or which provides aid or has economic cooperation with Pakistan. The Congress has demanded that there should be scaling down of the Pakistan high commission in Delhi and vice versa.
Mr Singhvi also added that after the 26/11 attack the UPA government got into action and “activated the concept of NCTC and NATGRID, unfortunately this government has not activated both. I am sorry to say that the chief executive of NATGRID was sacked after this government came to power”.
