New Delhi: Slamming the Centre over the Pakistani boat incident, the Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday said it showed the way the government was functioning as 'one hand does not know what the other hand is doing".
The party also attacked the NDA government for using the incident as a "public relations" activity and diluting national security.
"This reflects the functioning of the government. A senior officer is saying something and the government is saying something else. This is like one hand does not know what the other is doing," senior party leader Ashutosh told reporters.
Lashing out at the Centre for "diluting" national security due to contradictory statements, the party said the government used the incident to glorify itself.
"The incident was used as a PR (public relations) activity by the government," AAP spokesperson Deepak Bajpai added.
AAP's remarks came at the backdrop of a news report in which a DIG of the Indian Coast Guard has said it was the Coast Guard, which blew up the Pakistani boat on the night of December 31, 2014 contradicting government's stand that its crew was responsible for the explosion.
Till now the Ministry of Defence, Defence Minister and the Coast Guard have maintained that it was the boat's crew that had set it on fire or were responsible for the explosion that destroyed the vessel 365 km off Porbandar after an hour-long chase by a Coast Guard ship on New Year's Eve.
The party also ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the sale of his monogramed suit, which went under the hammer at Surat today, and his comments on the attack on churches.
"Narendra Modi and the BJP have mastered the art of marketing. The sale of the suit is nothing, but marketing itself.
"Modi's comments on attack on churches is an eye-wash. He (Modi) and his party has double standards on the issue. On one hand he keeps saying this, and on the other hand he is not able to stop the RSS, which promotes love jihad and ghar wapsi," party leader Dilip Pandey said.
He said that even the American President Barack Obama made an issue out of it.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had yesterday said that his government will not allow any religious group belonging to the majority or minority to incite hatred overtly or covertly.
The party also slammed the Modi government over media reports that it is taking the ordinance route to shield itself and the bureaucracy from criminal prosecution if decisions are taken in "good faith."
The AAP added that the government is "non-serious" and "non-commital" about tackling corruption.
"News paper reports suggest that the government is coming up with an ordinance that it was protecting babus over any decision taken in good faith. But who will decide what good faith is?
"The government came to power by making corruption an issue and it is now planning to shield officials. The Modi government is not serious about the issue. Since last eight months, they have not appointed any Lokpal and have transferred honest officers like AIIMS CVO Sanjiv Chaturvedi," Ashutosh said.
