PTI, HAVERI (Karnataka): Stepping up attack on the Narendra Modi government over the Pulwama terror strike, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Saturday asked the prime minister to explain to the nation why the then NDA dispensation had released terror outfit JeM chief Masood Azhar from Indian jail.
Raking up the release of Azhar by the Vajpayee dispensation in 1999 in exchange for passengers of a hijacked Indian Airlines plane, he said Modi should tell the country “how Masood Azhar was sent back (to Pakistan), who sent and which government sent him (back)”. He also asserted that the Congress would not bow down to terror.
Gandhi’s attack on the Modi government on national security comes amid an escalating war of words between the BJP and the Congress over India’s air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan.
