PM Modi announces compensation for villagers affected by Pak firing

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced here on Friday that the government would compensate villagers who have suffered damages due to the recent instances of cross border firing.

"Pakistan ko muh ki khaani padi hai (Pakistan has got a fitting reply). They will not try this again. And the government will take action and provide compensation to those who had to flee their villages due to the firing," the Prime Minister said while addressing a rally in Amravati.

He also commended the armed forces for silencing the other side.

"I want to tell those who had to flee their homes that Pakistan has been given an answer. Our soldiers have given Pakistan a reply and silenced them," Prime Minister Modi added.

He also took on Congress Party leaders for questioning the repeated instances of ceasefire violations.

"These days, the Congress Party is making a lot of statements about what is happening on the border with Pakistan. This is not the time to make statements; this is the time for a soldier's bullet," said the Prime Minister.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had targeted the Centre on Wednesday over the repeated cross-border attacks by Pakistan along the International Border and the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

Gandhi had said, "Pakistan has been attacking us in the last few days and they are killing our people. But during the time of elections, he had said that nothing will happen when I become the Prime Minister. It is easy to say but it becomes different when it comes to implementation."

After a series of ceasefire violations by Pakistan this month, no major instance of cross border firing was reported last night except in Hira Nagar, where four posts of the BSF were targeted for about 20 minutes.

Yesterday, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley had also sounded a sharp warning to Pakistan by saying that if Pakistan continues with this adventurism, then the Indian forces will make the cost of this adventurism unaffordable.