Fadnavis lambasts Pawar’s “track-record of appeasement politics” 

The BJP leader takes issue with NCP chief’s remarks against ‘The Kashmir Files’ 

Launching a blistering attack on Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar’s alleged “track-record of appeasement politics”, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday remarked that Mr. Pawar’s recent statements against the film The Kashmir Files were hardly surprising given the NCP’s wont of allegedly “polarising society along communal lines.”

In a series of tweets buttressed by newspaper clippings of Mr. Pawar’s statements in the past, Mr. Fadnavis, who is the BJP’s leader of opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, lashed out at the NCP’s “double-standards” in appeasing the minority community.

“Mr. Pawar’s recent statements on[filmmaker] Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files are not surprising at all. t’s not surprising at all. In fact, they are totally in line with NCP’s decades old track record of appeasement policy & politics and polarising the society on communal basis,” said the BJP leader.

Mr. Fadnavis questioned the NCP chief’s alleged “double standards” on communal harmony.

“Why does a movie based on real testimonials of sufferings of Kashmiri Pandits disturb someone? Just because it doesn’t suit the pseudo-secular agenda?” Mr. Fadnavis said.

He further asserted that the movie was not against any religion but against those who “chose to look the other way when people were suffering.”

“Because these people [read Mr. Pawar and the NCP] felt that it suited their political agenda of appeasement, thereby achieving a communal divide,” Mr. Fadnavis said