PM insulting country by comparing it with Pak: Cong leader

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said "even Jammu and Kashmir police can defeat Pakistan, which is a dead horse" and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of repeatedly resorting to rhetoric in the name of the neighboring country, just to divert the nation's attention from core issues.

The Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha also said Modi was "insulting" the country by comparing it with Pakistan.

"I haven't seen the Prime Minister speaking on unemployment, the Home Minister speaking on farmers issues, any ministers talking about improving GDP and any of the BJP leaders speaking on controlling price rise. These are the issues that concern each and every individual, whatever religion or caste they may belong to," Azad said.

Speaking to reporters here, he said instead what we hear is only "rhetoric" against Pakistan.

"Pakistan is a dead horse...just to divert issues, Pakistan name is raised. What is Pakistan? If you send Kashmir police, they can also defeat Pakistan... The Prime Minister is rather insulting India by comparing it with Pakistan. It is a great insult to India. I'm sorry!
"It clearly indicates that some thing has really gone wrong somewhere," the Congress leader said as he paid homage to two people killed during anti-CAA protest in Mangaluru last month calling them "innocent boys."
He also made it clear it was not only Muslims who were killed during anti-CAA protests in several parts of the country and said, "all sections of people are part of the protests...the entire country has risen to the occasion against this act."
Menon too on Friday had slammed the government for amending the Citizenship Act, saying India has "isolated" itself through the move and the list of critical voices both at home and abroad is "pretty long."
As most of the promises made by Modi made ahead of the polls were false and his government had failed in implementing them, he said adding, "the only option left for this government was to polarise the people in the name of religion, which they are effectively doing."