BJP, not Congress should apologise for pushing country to edge: Azad
The kind of situation that is presently created it is all because of the BJP government, he said speaking to the media.
New Delhi: Under attack from BJP over comparison between the deaths post demonetisation with the Uri killings, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and his party ruled out apologising for his remarks saying the government should instead apologise to the people.
"BJP should apologise (for demonetisation) to the entire nation, not me. The way they have pushed back the country, they must apologise to the 125 crore people of this country," the senior Congress leader said here outside Parliament.
BJP members led by minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday created a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha demanding that Azad apologise for his comparison.
He said that Azad's statement had given a message to the country that Congress was sympathetic to terrorism and asked why was it so agitated when the demonetisation drive was only to hurt black money hoarders.
Azad had in his remarks yesterday during the debate on demonetisation said that the number of those killed by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists in Uri was less than those who died due to suffering post demonetisation.
His party leaders Digvijay Singh and Manish Tewari came to Azad's defence saying as a politician of long standing from Jammu and Kashmir and as chief minister of that state, he was second to none in upholding nationalism and by no means he could be called anti-national.