Union minister Giriraj Singh on Thursday lashed out at Congress leader P Chidambaram over his “home-grown terrorists” remarks and accused him of speaking in their favour. This came a day after the former Union home minister talked of “home-grown terrorists” and said the government’s discreet silence is because it knows about them. In a social media post on Wednesday, though Chidambaram did not talk of the Delhi blast that claimed 13 lives and injured over 25 people, he posed a question on why and under what circumstances Indian citizens are turning into terrorists.
Reacting sharply, Giriraj Singh ridiculed Chidambaram’s comments and accused him of speaking in support of the terrorists.
“He is supporting terrorists. ‘Chhi, chhi’ (disgusting),” the union minister said.
Flaying Chidambaram for his remarks, he further said, “You have crossed all the limits. You even took away (then prime minister) Manmohan Singh’s dharma. (You) brought terrorist Yasin Malik to sit with him,” Singh added.
The senior BJP leader also took on the Congress, alleging that the country is facing the scourge of terrorism due to the grand old party’s appeasement politics.
“You (Chidambaram) should remember that from Nehru to Manmohan Singh, it’s your contribution. It’s the result of appeasement,” Singh said.
BJP national spokesperson Nalin Kohli also took on the Congress and accused Chidambaram of trying to build a political narrative over the terror incident. Such statements and attempts to “paint a victimhood on terrorists” in effect do injustice to those who have suffered terror, as in the Delhi bomb blast case, he said.
