Terming the surgical strike by the Indian army a `delayed step’, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has congratulated the forces for the successful mission to wipe out the terrorist camps in PoK.
"The action of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was justified but it was a delayed action. If this surgical strike had been done after the Pathankot terrorist attack in January last, then our 18 soldiers would not have been killed in Uri," she said.
In a statement issued here on Friday afternoon, Mayawati said every Indian is proud of the Indian Army act and such action boosts the morale. She said that all the borders with Pakistan should be strengthened so that the infiltrators are prevented from sneaking into our side.
However the BSP president was critical on the statement of BJP president Amit Shah who had termed the attack as a 'new rising of India ( Bharat ka naya uday). " The act is total an army operation and making it political is very unfortunate," she asserted. Mayawati said that due to such political act the situation in Kashmir valley is disturbed for the past over 80 days and the present PDP- BJP coalition government has failed to restore peace there.