Accusing Modi Government of ignoring the intelligence information inputs received ahead of the Pulwama terror attack, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday apprehended that one more Pulwama-like attack would be “engineered” in the middle of Lok Sabha polls and the ruling BJP would try to exploit the incident by whipping up patriotic sentiments.
Addressing party workers at Rangsharada auditorium on the occasion of 13th anniversary of his party, Raj said: “I have a strong hunch that in the next month or two—right in the middle of Lok Sabha elections, one more Pulwama-like attack will be engineered... I repeat the attack will be engineered. Once again, the attention of the people will be diverted and we will once again to get see speeches on patriotism”.
Attributing the need to create a war-like situation in the country to the Modi government’s “failure” to deliver on its various promises, Raj charged that the BJP was trying to “divert” the attention of the people from its failure on various fronts. “The BJP has realised now that it has failed to deliver on all its promises—be it “Make in India”, “Start up India”, or “2 crore employment a year promise” etc ..... The BJP could not use the Dawood deportation issue and Ram Mandir issue.....”
Targetting India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval for his questionable credentials, the MNS chief demanded to know as to why Doval had not accepted the responsibility for the Pulwama terror attack, in which innocent 40 CRPF jawans were killed.
Raj said that the CRPF had urged the Government to aircraft its personnel to sensitive areas in Kashmir and not to transport them in vehicles. “Pulwama incident was not an intelligence failure. The intelligence inputs had suggested that before occupying the place of deployment, sanitise the place as inputs of use if IEDs. But the Government did not act on it. After all this, we should not ask questions. We should not expression suspicion in this kind of a situation.
“Despite receiving intelligence inputs ahead of the Pulwama attack, why did the Government not act on them? Our CRPF jawans were killed because of the Government to act on the intelligence inputs. Is NSA Doval responsible for the whole thing?,” Raj asked.