The BJP’s Gurugram candidate and Union Minister of State for Planning (Independent charge) Rao Inderjit Singh on Friday said that his party was indeed seeking votes for Balakot air strikes, adding that it was for the first time that “we had entered the house of the enemies and hit them”.
Speaking at a public meeting ahead of filing his nomination papers, Mr. Singh said the Opposition accused them of seeking votes on the basis of the Balakot air strikes and One Rank One Pension issues and acknowledged that it’s true, but went on to justify it.
He said there were no two ways about the fact that for the first time since Independence, India has had a government and a Prime Minister willing to “enter the house of the enemy to hit them and kept our self-respect intact”.
He said the UPA government had only paid lip service to the cause of OROP by allocating ₹100 crore in its last budget, but the NDA earmarked ₹8,500 crore to implement it in 2016.
He said Haryana is the only the third State after Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh where the Central government has sanctioned two AIIMS projects.
