Congress’ manifesto claiming it made “traitors and separatists happy”: Sushma

Sushma Swaraj criticises Congress manifesto

Union Minister Sushma Swaraj has slammed the Congress’ manifesto claiming it made “traitors and separatists happy“.

Ms. Swaraj has been addressing a BJP women workers’ meeting in Nagpur for the party’s Lok Sabha candidate and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.

“The Congress manifesto has made deshdrohi (traitor) and algavwadi (separatist) people happy. It is unfortunate for the country that on one side Prime Minister Narendra Modi is giving a befitting reply to Pakistan’s terror attacks with surgical and air strikes. On the other hand, the Congress president (Rahul Gandhi) is refusing to accept treason as a crime,” she says.

While Mr. Modi has taken back security provided to separatist leaders (in Jammu and Kashmir post the Pulwama terror attack), the Congress chief talks of continuous talks with them, the Minister of External Affairs says.

“This is the difference between chowkidar and rajkumar,” she says, adding that she was confident people would not vote for a party that made the nation unsafe.

“I am confident people will re-elect Modi as PM because they know the nation is safe in his hands,” she claims.

She says the Congress failed to corner Pakistan following the 26/11 terror raid on Mumbai in 2008 while the Modi government has given all powers to armed forces to retaliate following the Uri and Pulwama attacks.

She says India isolated Pakistan post the Pulwama attack and the latter did not attend the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) meeting as India was a special invitee.