{"id":4530,"date":"2019-02-21T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:41","slug":"sitaram-yechury-accuses-bjp-of-politicising-pulwama-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/sitaram-yechury-accuses-bjp-of-politicising-pulwama-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitaram Yechury accuses BJP of politicising Pulwama terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM) has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of politicising the recent Pulwama terror attack on Central Police Reserve Force (CRPF) jawans which claimed the lives of more than 40 soldiers last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Stating that attempts to generate \u2018electoral benefits\u2019 out of the unfortunate incident was \u2018wrong for the country\u2019s security\u2019, Yechury told ANI that BJP president Amit Shah had spoken at a rally in Assam on February 17 after the terror attack promising action and a \u2018befitting reply\u2019 as the BJP government was different from the UPA government before it.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pointing out the need for \u2018accountability\u2019, Yechury added that the BJP should first explain how such an incident could occur in the first place &#8211; given that the BJP has been at the helm of affairs for the last four years. The CPIM general secretary also questioned the Prime Minister on his breach of protocol in going to receive the Saudi Arabia\u2019s crown prince upon his arrival last Tuesday in India. Yechury pointed out that the crown prince had recently announced a generous aid package for Pakistan making the Prime Minister\u2019s presence at the airport &#8211; \u2018unprecedented\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Further, the CPIM general secretary spoke on the upcoming elections in the country stressing on the need to defeat the BJP at the Centre, Congress in Kerala and the Trinamool Congress\u00a0in West Bengal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM) has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of politicising the recent Pulwama terror attack on Central Police Reserve Force (CRPF) jawans which claimed the lives of more than 40 soldiers last Thursday. Stating that attempts to generate \u2018electoral benefits\u2019 out of the unfortunate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}