‘Hold Surgical Strike in China, Pak’: Sanjay Raut on BJP Minister’s Comment on Farmers’ Protest


By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi |

December 10, 2020 12:37:59 pm





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On Thursday, Shiv Sena criticized his former ally BJP after Union Minister Raosaheb Danve claimed that China and Pakistan were behind the ongoing protests by farmers. Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut said the government should “immediately carry out a surgical strike against China and Pakistan” if such information exists.

“If a Union minister has information that China and Pakistan are behind the farmers’ agitation, then the Defense Minister should immediately carry out a surgical strike against China and Pak. The president, the prime minister, the interior minister and the heads of the Armed Forces should seriously discuss this issue, ”said Raut, who is also Shiv Sena’s main spokesperson, the ANI news agency reported.

Danve claimed on Wednesday that China and Pakistan were behind the ongoing protests by farmers, the PTI news agency reported.

Sena spokesman and former Union Minister Arvind Sawant also criticized Danve saying that the BJP leaders are crazy because they lost power in Maharashtra. “They don’t know what they are talking about,” the Sena leader told the PTI news agency.

During a farmers’ protest in Punjab. Express Photo by Jaipal Singh

Opening a health center in Maharashtra yesterday, Danve also alleged that Muslims were previously misled about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Citizens Registry (NRC), but since those efforts were unsuccessful, they are now He told farmers that they will face losses due to the new laws.

“The turmoil that is happening is not that of the farmers. China and Pakistan are behind this. Muslims in this country were first incited. What was said (to them)? That NRC is coming, CAA is coming, and Muslims will have to leave this country in six months. Did a single Muslim leave? “Those efforts were unsuccessful and farmers are now being told they will face losses. This is the conspiracy of other countries, ”Danve said.

The minister, however, did not elaborate on the basis that he claimed that the two neighboring countries are behind the farmers’ protests.

Farmers have been camping on the borders of Delhi for 15 days demanding the repeal of the three agricultural laws. At least seven farmers have died, four due to accidents and three due to natural causes.

(With PTI inputs)

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