Jaipur: Former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik, who’s within the media highlight once more for elevating critical questions over the 2019 Pulwama terror assault, has responded to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s cost of elevating the problem “only after demitting the office.” Replying to a query on Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s current remarks that he was “levelling allegations after parting ways with us”, Malik mentioned that it’s improper to imagine that he raised the problem solely after demitting his workplace.
“It is wrong to state that I raised this issue when I was out of power,” the previous J&Okay governor informed reporters in Sikar in Rajasthan, including that he had raised it on the day of the assault.
Pulwama Terror Attack Row
Forty Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have been killed within the terrorist assault on a convoy of safety automobiles in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in February 2019. Malik, who was then governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has just lately alleged intelligence failures and that the central authorities denied plane for the motion of safety personnel. Malik alo revealed that the Pulwama terror assault was a results of systemic failure, involving gross safety and intelligence lapses.
He asserted that the tragedy was exploited for political features. Malik claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had instructed him to stay silent after he dropped at gentle the safety lapses that led to the assault, which resulted within the demise of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel on February 14, 2019. Separately, Malik additionally added that National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval had suggested him to chorus from talking about it.
To a query in regards to the allegation that the CBI’s current summons to Malik was linked to his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his authorities, Home Minister Shah mentioned such a cost just isn’t true as he was known as by the probe company earlier too.
“I can say with complete conviction that the BJP has done nothing that needs to be covered up. If someone is levelling allegations after parting ways with us, then it should be evaluated accordingly by the media and people,” Shah mentioned whereas talking to an occasion organised by a non-public TV information channel final week.
Rajnath Singh A Serious Candidate For PM Post: Malik
In response to a different query, Malik mentioned Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is a “serious candidate” for the publish of prime minister and that “if it is in his destiny, he will become one”. Asked in regards to the BJP’s prospects within the Lok Sabha elections subsequent yr, he mentioned, “I wish them well, but in politics and elections, no one knows what will happen. The current situation is difficult for them, they will have to do some things.”
Malik additional claimed that Prime Minister Modi’s silence on the Gautam Adani situation will hurt him. The prime minister must also communicate on the Pulwama situation, he insisted. In the context of Rajasthan the place meeting elections are due later this yr, Malik mentioned that if the BJP initiatives Vasundhara Raje as its chief ministerial candidate, its probabilities of victory will improve.
