Why PM Modi's charge of Congress being soft on terror is bang on target | OPINION

"We told them to target terrorism, but the Congress government targeted Modi. And as a result, terrorists became fearless and terrorism raised its head in big cities," PM Narendra Modi roared at a recent rally in Gujarat, clearly rattling the Congress party, whose President Mallikarjun Kharge then retaliated with the obnoxious ‘Raavan jibe’ for PM Modi. Moreover, if one is to believe WikiLeaks' story, then around the same time when India suffered some of the worst terror strikes, Rahul Gandhi is reported to have told the US ambassador to India that “Hindu extremism poses the greatest threat to the country.” In fact, even after the 26/11 attacks, the Congress did not give up its vote bank politics- Digvijay Singh went on to release a spurious book- “26/11- RSS ki saazish”-a clear attempt to give a clean chit to Pakistan and homegrown terror groups. With such glaring evidence of the Congress’ soft approach towards terror and its duplicity, why should anybody be surprised by PM Modi calling out the Congress' notoriety on the issue? However, PM Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to the President asking him to reconsider, saying that the “President of a secular country doing this has a number of implications.” Nehru’s opposition notwithstanding, Dr Rajendra Prasad stood his ground and went ahead with the temple inauguration, but upon Nehru’s insistence, he had to do it in Dr Prasad’s personal capacity and the government machinery was kept out of it.