Where is the ‘56-inch chest’, asks Cong on jawan’s killing
NEW DELHI: The Congress Thursday wondered where was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “56-inch” chest as it demanded strong action against Pakistan and bring to book those behind the killing of Indian soldier Narendra Singh.
Party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the time has come to “show red eyes to Pakistan and display strong demeanour and not just vaunt about a “56-inch chest”.
He said there is anger not just in Haryana, from which the slain soldier Narendra Singh hails from, but the entire country and asked the prime minister when he will bat for the soldiers instead of “sending cricket bats” to Pakistan.
“When will today’s leadership fulfil their responsibility towards the country? Where is that 56-inch chest and the red-eyes they once claimed that would show to Pakistan? Does Prime minister’s conscience not prick him,” he asked.
“The country’s leadership will have to answer now. It
looks like the government is more concerned about the dishonest than the country’s soldiers. Time has come to show the 56-inch chest and red eyes to Pakistan,” he said.
The Congress leader said the entire country is demanding answers, but the country’s
leadership has adopted a conspiratorial silence.
“We demand that both sons of Narendra Singh be given employment as per their qualification by the Haryana government and want he be given the status of a martyr,” Surjewala said, adding that the government should be seen standing behind the family of the slain soldier who has fulfilled his duty towards ‘Mother India’. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari condemned the “barbaric, inhuman and repulsive manner” in which the Indian soldier was killed, saying it violates every convention and standard operating procedures between even adversary armies.
“I think every Indian today who read that report must have felt personally violated. This cannot go on. India needs to respond. The NDA government is in the dock. The country wants a response to this inhuman and barbaric killing,” he said.