Rajnath Singh slams CPI(M) manifesto

Rajnath Singh said the Congress and the CPI(M) were playing with India’s national security.

New Delhi:

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday accused the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress party of conspiring to weaken India, while questioning the intention of the CPI(M) election manifesto to dismantle all nuclear weapons in the country.

Singh also demanded to know Congress’s stance on the issue, saying “talk of eliminating our nuclear weapons is tantamount to playing with national security.”

“I specifically want to ask the Congress what they think about this comment by the CPIM. I would like to ask them to clarify. The CPIM said that if they come to power, they will destroy all nuclear weapons. India’s first nuclear test was in 1974 Indira Gandhi made this demand because China has been conducting nuclear tests and even Pakistan has started nuclear tests,” the defense minister said while addressing a public rally in Kasargod, Kerala.

“Later, Atal Bihar Vajpayee’s government conducted five successful nuclear tests, earning India the status of a world nuclear power. The Left and Congress wanted to weaken India,” he added.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is part of the India Group, in its manifesto released last week pledged to “completely eliminate nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons”.

Rajnath Singh said: “Talk about dismantling our nuclear weapons when India’s neighbors are all nuclear powers is tantamount to playing with India’s national security. This is a very deep-rooted conspiracy to weaken the country.”

Attacking the Left parties, the defense minister said, “Once the public kicks the Left parties out of Tripura and Bengal, then they have no chance of coming to power. Whether it is the Congress or the Left parties, as long as they are exposed in public, their “That’s why, no matter which state they are kicked out of, the door of that state is always closed to them. “

“Can you trust the Congress and the LDF? Because in Kerala, both parties are fighting with each other, but in Delhi, the Congress and the Left are bonding over ‘Modiram matal’ (joining hands),” he added.

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