Bajwa flays BJP, Akalis over attack

Former Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa today launched a frontal attack on BJP-led NDA government over alleged lapses in national security, leading to the terrorist attack on Pathankot airbase.
Bajwa targeted Home Minister Rajnath Singh over the "confusion and contradiction" in the Pathankot operation, saying it was exemplified by his tweet, "The (Pathankot) operation is over. We have won a great victory. Five terrorists have been killed", even though the operation to flush out the militants was still on.
"And only four terrorists, not five had been killed. If the country's Home Minister has access to such little information, what would be the plight of junior functionaries?" Bajwa asked and flayed BJP for "shouting from rooftops" about being "tough on terrorism".

Operations have been intensified to flush out two militants holed up in a two storey building at the Pathankot Air Base on the third day.
Four terrorists have been neutralised in the operation, while one Garud commando, one NSG officer and five personnel of Defence Security Corps (DSC) were killed. Seventeen security personnel were also injured.
Bajwa also posed queries on National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.

"And what about National Security Adviser Ajit Doval - he who accompanied the progenitor of the attack Maulana Masood Azhar to Kandahar in the biggest sellout in Indian national security history?
"Running the cleansing operation by remote control from New Delhi, he refused to the local army commander on the ground to take charge, preferring instead to entrust command to the IG of the NSG who would not in any case have been familiar with the ground," Bajwa claimed.

The Congres leader also hit out at the Akali Dal-led Punjab government saying Punjab Police continues to wallow as no modernisation has been carried out for them, the first responders to any attack or crisis.
"At this rate Punjab will soon be overrun by jihadi terrorists," he said.