West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that the details of the air strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Pakistan\u2019s Balakot should be made public.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have the right to know how many people died in the air strike and who they were. What was the actual incident? We have not received any detail. We love the nation, but we don\u2019t like to see people play politics over bodies of our jawans,\u201d the chief minister told journalists at the state administrative headquarters on Thursday. Banerjee said that no action was taken in the past five years despite attacks in Uri and Pathankot.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been terror attacks in Uri and Pathankot but no action was taken. The government had received an advisory regarding the attacks, but no preventive action was taken and the lives of the jawans were put to danger,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Significantly, Banerjee\u2019s words come on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to BJP workers at the party\u2019s mega event, \u2018Mera Booth, Sabse Mazbooth\u2019 through a video-conference that was tipped to be the world\u2019s biggest such event. PM Modi addressed over one crore BJP volunteers who will operate at the level of polling booths in upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n
Narendra Modi said at the event that the country will \u2018fight as one\u2019 and \u2018win as one\u2019.<\/p>\n
He stated that terror activities were supported by the enemies of India who wanted to stall the \u201cprogress\u201d of the country. Urging people to \u2018stand united\u2019 and \u2018stand with our soldiers\u2019, Modi disregarded the criticism he faced from the Opposition parties for focusing on elections at a time when tensions have escalated between India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n