Pak is patronising terrorism: Rajnath
BHADRAK: Union home minister Rajnath Singh Sunday castigated Pakistan, accusing it of engineering the Pulwama attack in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
He claimed that the neighbouring country backed the attack after finding out that the terrorists have become frustrated in the wake of the successful operations by the Indian forces in the past five years.
“Pakistan, which has been patronising terrorism, realised that frustration and desperation had grown among the militants due to successful operations against them by our security forces in five years,” Singh said at a public meeting on the outskirts of this north Odisha town.
Asserting that the security forces have been given a free hand to give a “befitting reply” to the attack, the Union home minister said the sacrifice made by the CRPF jawans would not go in vain.
Asserting that all political parties have pledged full support to the government and the defence forces, Singh said the entire nation stands behind the Army, who would certainly “teach the enemy a lesson”.
Rajnath pays tribute to martyrs of 1942 massacre in Odisha
Bhadrak (Odisha), Feb 17 (PTI) Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh Sunday visited Eram in Odisha’s Bhadrak district and offered floral tributes to the martyrs who were gunned down in 1942 by the British police.
He is also scheduled to address a public rally and hold a meeting with BJP booth-level workers in the district.
Accompanied by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other BJP leaders, Singh reached Eram, about 50 km from here, around 1pm.
Singh, after paying homage to the martyrs at Shaheed Stambha (martyrs’ column), said the sacrifices of the CRPF soldiers in the recent Pulwama terror attack would not go in vain.
“The supreme sacrifice of the jawans (in Pulwama) will not go in vain,” he told reporters.
Much like the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, 29 people were killed in Eram, a remote village in Odisha’s Bharak district, when the police opened fire at a crowd that had gathered to protest against the British regime.