Slugfest over Congress’s P Chidambaram’s ‘dimagi Naxal’ post

Ki e
Rijiju
said
PM
was
ot
efe i g
to
the
oppositio
afte
P
Chidamba am’s
‘dimagi
Naxal’
post.

NEW
DELHI:
PM
Modi’s
‘dimagi
Naxal’
ema k
o
August
15
became
the
subject
of
a
political
slugfest
Su day,
with

Co g ess’s

P
Chidamba am
sayi g
he
was
“p oud
to
be
a
dimagi
Naxal”
to
which

BJP
eplied
that
the
ex-home
mi iste ‘s
ema k
shows
how
UPA
govt
was
u .U io
mi iste
Ki e
Rijiju
said
the
PM
was
ot
efe i g
to
the
oppositio .
“O ly
followi g
a e
Dimagi
Naxals:
1.
Who
suppo t
Maoists
a d
eject
I dia
Co stitutio .
2.
Who
sta d
with
sepa atists
&
suppo t
A ticle
370.
4.
Who
wa t
to
cut
chicke
eck
to
sepa ate
No th-East
f om
I dia,”
he
said
o
X.
t Co g ess
Rajya
Sabha
MP
Pawa
Khe a
espo ded
o
X:
“B othe
Ki e
Rijiju,
get
you
cou ti g
ight
fi st,
the
we’ll
a swe .
Afte
1
a d
2
comes
3,
ot
4.”BJP
ally
TDP
MP
a d
fo me
IPS
office
Te eti
K ish a
P asad
backed
PM’s
“dimagi
Naxals”
ema ks,
sayi g
a
ew
fo m
of
“i tellectual
Naxalism”
has
eme ged.
“The
fo est
Naxalites
a d
Maoists
have
bee
emoved
f om
fo ests;
ow
this
ew
fo m
has
eme ged.
The efo e,
we
have
to
emai
ext emely
vigila t
a d
p otect
ou
cou t y,
especially
ou
youth,”
he
said
i
a
video
stateme t,
acco di g
to
ews
age cy
PTI.

I
a
appa e t
efe e ce
to
Rahul
Ga dhi,
Te eti
K ish a
said,
“Today,
fo est
Naxalites
have
go e,
a d
a
ew
fo m
has
eme ged.
I
call
them
‘i tellectual
Naxalites’.
They
do
ot
ope ate
i
fo ests;
they
ope ate
i
cities.
They
o ga ise
semi a s
i
ai -co ditio ed
halls.

BJP
MP
Ravi
Sha ka
P asad
said
Chidamba am
“has
become
the
face
of
the
Co g ess
ecosystem
which
u tu es
Maoism”.
He
ecalled
that
as
home
mi iste ,
Chidamba am
had
exp essed
willi g ess
to
hold
talks
with
Naxals
whe
they
had
killed
76
secu ity
pe so el,
while
JNU
had
wit essed
a
eve t
laudi g
the
kille s.
U de
Modi
govt,
Maoism
has
ot
o ly
bee
fi ished
off
but
atio al
flag
is
also
flyi g
i
fo me
st o gholds
of
Maoists,
he
said.BJP
also
kept
up
its
attack
o
Co g ess
fo
allegedly
i sulti g
atio al
so g
Va de
Mata am,
with
BJP
p eside t
Niti
Nabi ,
sayi g
bowi g
to
fu dame talist
fo ces
has
become
a
pe ma e t
policy
of
Co g ess.
Besides
the
attempt
by
So ia
Ga dhi
to
“stop”
the
ecital
of
Va de
Mata am’s
full
ve sio
at
Co g ess
headqua te s,
its
govt
i
Ke ala
emoved
the
so g
altogethe
f om
the
I depe de ce
Day
eve t,
he
said.