Pawar slams Modi for skipping all-party meet on Pulwama attack
New Delhi, Feb 19: NCP president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for skipping the all-party meeting called by the NDAgovernment in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack.
Instead of attending the meeting over such a serious issue, Modi chose to address rallies elsewhere, the former Union minister said.
"An all-party meeting was called on Saturday...In fact we were told that PM Modi would chair the meeting. Presuming that Modi would attend the meeting, we all went to Delhi as it (the terror attack in South Kashmir) was an attack on the nation," Pawar told reporters here.
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"Upon reaching there, we came to know that PM was not there....when 40 CRPF jawans got martyred and there was a serious situation, the PM should have been present at the meeting, but he chose to address public rallies in Dhule and Yavatmal (in Maharashtra), where he criticised us (opposition parties)," he said.
Pawar was speaking to reporters after unveiling a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji on the premise of MIT World Peace University here.
Asked
about
the
BJP-Shiv
Sena
alliance
which
was
announced
Monday,
Pawar
said
it
was
bound
to
happen.
"For
the
last
few
months,
they
hurled
abuse
at
each
other
and
now
they
are
holding
hands.
But
the
people
of
the
state
are
mature
enough
and
know
the
politics
behind
it.
The
people
will
give
a
proper
reply
to
those
who
cheated
them,"
he
said.