PM Modi's Influence Led To Pakistan's Isolation Among Islamic Nations After Pre-dawn Strike: Naqvi ​

Bhopal: Heaping praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the pre-dawn air strike on Pakistan-based terror camps, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Modi’s popularity has helped isolate the neighbouring country among Islamic nations even after the strike and ensured that the entire world backed India.

He said Pakistan would have to pay the price for the recent terror attack in Pulwama that killed 40 CRPF jawans two weeks ago.

While referring to Tuesday’s strike which Indian officials said was deep inside Pakistan territory, Naqvi said the neighbouring nation would be repaid for what it had done against India in Pulwama.

Naqvi was addressing a convention of BJP party workers in Gwalior.

Taking potshots at the Congress for having a soft spot for separatist leaders, the Union minister said, “After the Narendra

Modi-led BJP government at the Centre withdrew security of several separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir, it was unfortunate that whatever these separatist elements did not say was uttered by Congress leaders.”

“It seems the Congress leaders were repaying the debt of biryani they had with these elements,” Naqvi added.

Regarding the Congress-led UPA government, the Union minister said, “Though Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister, it was Sonia Gandhi who used to run the government,”

Naqvi also said that a “PR (public relations) circus” was underway for Congress president Rahul Gandhi and general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi with only a joker missing. “This missing link has been found with the entry of Robert Vadra,” he added.

The Union minister also dismissed the “mahagathbandhan” (grand alliance) as a “mahamilavati gathbandhan” (adulterated alliance) which would soon reach its expiry date.

Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Rajya Sabha MP Prabhat Jha also addressed the meeting of booth-level BJP workers.

Union law and information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who was also in Madhya Pradesh, visited a temple in Ujjain. Identifying himself as a staunch Shiva devotee, Prasad said, “I prayed for the victory of “Bharatmata”.