Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 9: Senior All India Congress Committee (AICC) leader, Sukhpal Singh Khera today hit out at the ruling BJP for its numerous terror connections which need explanation from the party besides high level probe,.
Addressing a press conference at PCC office here today Khera questioned BJP for its terror links in its cadres including the recent one of LeT Commander Talib Hussain Shah in J&K and Riyaz Ahmed Attari in Rajasthan.
Khera launched a scathing attack on the BJP for various incidents of terror connections in the past, which is very serious and unfortunate situation that the saffron party leaders takes nationalism high on its agenda for the vote bank politics and questions the nationalist credentials of others who have sacrificed lives for the nation
Referring to the issue of Talib Hussain, prominent leader of IT Cell of BJP in J&K, who was spotted in the photograph with even Home Minister, Khera said how a simple denial by BJP is sufficient without a fair probe into his links. Similarly, Mohd Riyaz Attari, who was linked to BJP in Rajasthan especially with the top BJP leader and leader of opposition, Gulab Chand Kataria has indulged into a heinous crime of sensational murder of Kaniya Lal, in Udaipur sending shock waves in the country. It recently emerged that one of the accused in Kanhaiya Lal’s horrific murder in Udaipur was a BJP worker named Mohd Riyaz Attari. He had joined the BJP in the presence of a senior local leader. Media reports state that Attari was employed by the son-in-law of the BJP leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha, Gulab Chand Kataria. The media has also reported that the Irfan Khan, accused of masterminding the murder of Amravati chemist Umesh Kolhe, had close links with the “independent” MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana. Everyone knows the relationship between the Ranas and the BJP. Irfan Khan is known to have campaigned and sought votes for the Ranas.
Khera said former BJP leader and ex-Sarpanch Tariq Ahmad Mir was arrested in 2020 for procuring weapons for Hizbul Mujahideen commander Naveed Babu. Babu had previously been arrested with DSP Davinder Singh and accused of supplying weapons to terrorists. The NIA has confirmed that Mir is an associate of Davinder Singh. The truth would have come out had the Davinder Singh inquiry been carried through to its conclusion, but it was halted midway.
He alleged that BJP has also knowingly gave a ticket to Masood Azhar’s acolyte Mohammad Farooq Khan to contest the Srinagar Municipal election from Ward 33. Khan was previously a member of the JKLF and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.
Khera said that the biggest problem of the country facing today is that of large scale unemployment and uncontrolled prices of all commodities and people are looted through taxes. The prices of all commodities especially petrol, diesel and LPG has touched record heights. The Govt agencies are only targeting Congress leaders and have never found anything wrong with top BJP leaders during 8 years or its allies or against the big tax and bank looters. It is a serious threat to the democracy of the country, he added.
Senior Congress leaders Ravinder Sharma, Balwan Singh, Yogesh Sawhney, Manmohan Singh and others were also present in the conference.
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