Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

SLAP TREASON CHARGES AGAINST ‘ANTINATION­ALS’: INDRESH KUMAR

- Ravi Krishnan Khajuria

JAMMU: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met some retired Pakistan Army officials and Mani Shanker Aiyar met Pakistani High Commission­er and "an ex-pakistan Foreign Minister" at his home in New Delhi, Rashtriya Swayam Sevak (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar on Monday said that time has come to slap treason charges against all anti-national elements in the country and a strong legislatio­n is also needed to ensure exemplary punishment to them.

Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a seminar organised by Hindi-baloch Forum on ‘Pak-sponsored terrorism, atrocities in Balochista­n and security issues in Kashmir’, Kumar said, “it was very dangerous (developmen­t) that some national leaders without the permission of Union government held secret talks with Pakistani officials”.

“Time has come for anti-national elements indulging in slogans of Hindustan Murdabad and Pakistan Zindabad, torching the Tricolor and colluding with Pakistan to be slapped treason charges,” he added.

When asked about unparliame­ntary language being allegedly used by some Congress leaders against Prime Minister Modi, he said, “Congress perhaps is in the habit of dividing people in the name of religion. Such a freedom is nowhere in the world except India. May better sense prevail upon them.”

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