
The MNS chief mentioned that struggle was not an answer to the issue of terrorism and the federal government ought to give precedence to discovering the perpetrators of terror assaults.
Indian armed forces early on Wednesday carried out missile strikes on 9 terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), together with the Jaish-e-Mohammad stronghold of Bahawalpur and Lashkar-e-Taiba’s base Muridke.
He mentioned that the federal government should be questioned about why a terror assault may happen in Pahalgam within the first place. The remarks come on a day when the Indian armed forces carried out missile strikes on terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
“Battle isn’t any reply to a terrorist assault. Within the US, they (terrorists) toppled the Twin Towers, attacked the Pentagon. The US didn’t wage a struggle. They killed these terrorists,” the MNS chief mentioned.
“You haven’t discovered the terrorists who attacked (vacationers in Pahalgam). Why there was no safety in a spot the place 1000’s of vacationers are going for the final a few years? It’s extra vital to hold out a combing operation inside our nation and discover them out. The airstrike, distracting folks….this, struggle cannot be the answer,” he added.
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Raj Thackeray mentioned that Pakistan is already ruined and added that the actual query is that the 4 terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam assault have not been discovered but.
“Pakistan is already ruined. The actual query is, the 4 terrorists who carried out the assault — they haven’t been discovered but. The place 1000’s of vacationers go to, why was there no safety? That’s the extra vital query,” Thackeray mentioned.
Raj Thackeray additionally questioned the mock drill referred to as by the Union Residence Ministry on Wednesday saying that as a substitute of the drill, the federal government ought to perform combing operation throughout the nation.
“As an alternative of Wednesday’s deliberate mock drill of Civil Defence, a combing operation needs to be carried out everywhere in the nation,” Thackeray additional mentioned.
Criticizing what he referred to as a misplaced present of power, Thackeray mentioned, “There appears to be a need to create a war-like state of affairs in a foreign country. Now we see mock drills and sirens (going off). However we have to ask the basic query, why did this (assault in Pahalgam on April 22 through which 26 civilians had been killed) occur within the first place?”
The MNS chief additionally took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his itinerary within the aftermath of the Pahalgam assault.
“The prime minister was in Saudi Arabia when this (terror assault) occurred, and he returned early, solely to go to Bihar for campaigning. That was not crucial. He went to Kerala for the inauguration of Adani’s port and later got here to Mumbai for the WAVES perform. If the state of affairs was so grave, all this might have been prevented,” the MNS chief, who backed Modi through the 2024 basic elections, mentioned.
The federal government’s failures must be identified, Thackeray mentioned, including the nation doesn’t want a symbolic response.
Discover the terrorists, dismantle their networks, and deal with the drug menace that’s spreading via our streets, he mentioned.