Whose Side is the Opposition On?
When the Opposition asked whether the surgical strikes after Uri had even happened or if it was just government progoganda, I felt it was very insulting. Not because governments don’t lie, not because the NDA/BJP is above lieing, but because the action in question was supposed to have been done by the Army. So was the Opposition saying that today even the Army is part of politics, that they would go along with such lies? If so, doesn’t it mean that the Army in India is no different than the army of dictatorships? And in such a scenario, would the Army allow any free and fair elections? If all this were true, surely we are facing a much bigger problem, a behind the scenes Emergency situation. So how come we don’t see the logical next step then, the Opposition up in arms against the “second” Emergency, except this time the Army is a part of it? Not satisfied with their contradictions, this time after the air strikes in Balakot, the Opposition continues with its contradictory lies:...