Air strikes top agenda in opposition meet
The air strikes will be on the top of the agenda of a meeting of Opposition leaders to be held on Wednesday to chalk out a Common Minimum Programme.
New Delhi: The BJP, which only a few weeks ago was looking at the possibility of getting 200 or less seats in the Lok Sabha polls, has began talking about “300 seats.”
The air strikes will be on the top of the agenda of a meeting of Opposition leaders to be held on Wednesday to chalk out a Common Minimum Programme and a pre-poll alliance for the general elections.
Sources said that the Congress is aware that bringing the discourse back to agrarian crisis, unemployment and the Rafael deal, among other issues, to counter the BJP’s pitch on nationalism, will be difficult.
The Congress leader quoted above indicated that the Opposition needs to be cautious in countering the BJP’s nationalist agenda as “they will be in danger of being labelled anti-nationals after the air strike.” That Mr Modi has scored with his daring strike became evident with agencies reporting, “Indians taking to the streets in celebration across the country on Tuesday after the government said it carried out air strikes inside Pakistan killing hundreds of militants in JeM training camp.”