Kapil Sibal said Mr. Modi should speak out and advise Mr Shah that indulging in political bickering is harmful for democracy. The Congress came out in defence of its vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday, even as the BJP top brass attacked him for criticising the Modi government for politically exploiting the surgical strikes on terror camps across the LoC. If the BJP was so concerned about the army, he continued, then why did they lower the combat pension? On the issue of the BJP claiming that the Indian army crossed the LoC for the first time on September 29, when it carried out surgical strikes, Mr Sibal asked, "Who crossed the LoC in 1965, ‘71 and 1999? He also took the BJP to task for forgetting all these dates in Indian history and accused the party of exploiting the Indian Army's strikes.

Source: The Hindu October 08, 2016 06:33 UTC