Countering the Congress charges, the BJP on Saturday alleged it was the Opposition party which was a collaborator with terrorists and under whose regimes the latter had a "free-hand".
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra here at a Press conference accused Congress of constantly supporting terrorists and being engaged in appeasement politics.
He said it is surprising as the grand old party is holding briefings across the country against terrorism when they were the ones who always stood with them allowing terrorists acts to flourish across the country.
The BJP's response came after the Congress held Press conference across India and said that BJP has become 'Aatmanirbhar on terrorism.' "It is a matter of surprise that the Congress is holding press conferences on terrorism in 22 places in the country. The way Congress has supported terrorism due to appeasement, it will not be an exaggeration to say that Congress is with terrorism", he said. Congress President Sonia Gandhi "wept bitterly after seeing the dead bodies of Batla House terrorists who were killed in an encounter,” Patra said.
"Congress leader Salman Khurshid himself informed that Sonia could not sleep for three nights and kept crying", Patra said and sought to ask "Why did she cry, only because those terrorists were killed?".
"Sonia stood with terrorist Zakir Naik and did everything to save him. Zakir is the same person who created a frenzy across the nation about religion in the minds of the citizens because she took donations in the name of her husband Rajiv Gandhi.
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) declared Ishrat Jahan a terrorist and openly called her their sleeper cell unit. But Congress party kept defending her and calling her innocent. They even ran an ambulance service after her," said the BJP leader.
Patra said the credit goes to the Modi Government that it put to a complete end to all those bomb blasts, train blasts and other terrorist activities here, there and elsewhere occurring in the country during the Congress regimes, soon after it came to power in 2014 He further said, "Yasin Malik admitted in an interview that he killed Indians. But even after his confession the kind of status was given to him by the UPA Government was nothing but a glorification of a terrorist.
They also advocated for terrorist Burhan Wani that he shouldn't have been killed as he was the son of a headmaster and comes from a poor background.
These kinds of wrong narratives were floated by Congress. There might be some reason why the most dangerous terrorist of Hafiz Saeed likes only one party in the world and that is Congress. Hafiz loved Congress because they protected terrorists.”