BJP MP slams Harish Rawat for calling Pakistan Army chief ‘brother’
The Hindu
“If there was nothing wrong in Narendra Modi going uninvited to Nawaz Sharif’s birthday and hugging him, how could Mr. Sidhu hugging Mr. Bajwa be an act of sedition,” Harish Rawat had said.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni on Thursday slammed former Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat for calling the Pakistan Army chief “brother”, drawing a sharp reaction from the Congress leader who said he doesn’t need a lecture on nationalism from him.
Mr. Rawat recently in a tweet justified his party’s Punjab unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s act of hugging Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the swearing-in of Imran Khan in Islamabad, asking how could one Punjabi “bhra” [brother] hugging another be an act of sedition.
“If there was nothing wrong in Narendra Modi going uninvited to Nawaz Sharif’s birthday and hugging him, how could Mr. Sidhu hugging Mr. Bajwa be an act of sedition,” he had said.
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