"What Jairam Ramesh said is condemnable and concerning": BJP's Gaurav Bhatia

New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National spokesperson Guarav Bhatia on Thursday condemned the "MPs are roaming around, terrorists are roaming around too" remarks by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and said that the country sought to know weather Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge agree with what Jairam Ramesh said.
Speaking to ANI, Bhatia said, "What Jairam Ramesh said is condemnable and concerning. It puts all Indian citizens to shame that how an Indian leader can compare Indian MPs to terrorists. It won't be wrong to say that after #OperationSindoor, the sole attempt of Lashkar-e-Pakistan Congress, at the behest of Nishan-e-Pakistan Rahul Gandhi has been to see how the successful initiatives by Narendra Modi-Government be weakned internally while being in India. This is another attempt in the same series.
He questioned, "I would like to ask Jairam Ramesh, all-party delegation of our MPs which has gone abroad and is presenting India's side strongly by rising above bipartisan politics, should these MPs be compared to terrorists?"
The BJP leader accused the Congress of weaking the country.
"It should be asked of Jairam Ramesh that he is using such slurs for MPs, but this delegation also includes Shashi Tharoor, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari and Salman Khurshid. These belong to the Congress. So, you have such hatred for Modi ji that you use such words for your MPs. If someone is attempting to weaken the country, it is Congress party. It is very sad. I condemn it. The country too is asking Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge if they agree with what Jairam Ramesh said," the BJP leader said.
Congress leader and the party's General Secretary (Communication), Jairam Ramesh, took a jibe at the Central government for sending out parliamentarians across the world while the perpetrators of the Pahalgam terror attack are "roaming around."
"It has been a month since the Pahalgam attack on April 22. Today, those terrorists are roaming around. They had a role in the December 2023 Poonch terror attack; the Ganderbal attack in October 2024; and in the same month, another attack took place--they had their role in that too. This means that the Pahalgam terrorists are responsible for four attacks in 18 months, and they are roaming around. Our MPs are roaming around, and our terrorists are roaming around too," Ramesh told ANI here.
Seven groups of MPs have been sent to various countries to present India's stance against terrorism and expose Pakistan's links to it. The delegation of MPs is meeting various political leaders, think tanks and the Indian diaspora in various countries. (ANI)