Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made “mistakes” on Jammu and Kashmir, as a result of which the state is “on fire”. Addressing a public meeting here in Madhya Pradesh, Gandhi also alleged that the ‘One-Rank, One-Pension’ (OROP) scheme has not been implemented so far and the prime minister was telling “lies” on the issue. He said a couple of days back, a delegation of ex-servicemen met him and said they had trusted Modi over OROP but were “disappointed” now. The prime minister “claims that OROP has been implemented. He speaks lies,” the Congress leader said. Referring to Jammu and Kashmir, he said the state is “on fire” right now, apparently referring to the latest killings in the state by terrorists. The Modi government “opened the doors of J&K for terrorists. No politician was martyred in J&K but armymen are laying their lives there because of Narendra Modi’s mistakes,” Gandhi said. “The PM talks about surgical strike, army, navy but doesn’t talk about army men. He makes claims. At least, tell us what you did about those who carried out the surgical strike,” he said. Taking a jibe at Modi for his remark that “selling of pakoda is also a job”, Gandhi said, “If you fry pakodas, then BJP will take away the money of the oil. Moreover, it will eat fried pakodas.” He also alleged that Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had allowed indebted liquor baron Vijay Mallya escape from the country. “Mallya had a meeting for 40 minutes with Arun Jaitley before leaving the country,” Gandhi said. Jaitley has already rubbished the allegations. Reacting to Rahul’s visit to a temple in Ujjai, the BJP said he is exhibiting “fancy-dress Hinduism” to fool people, and demanded action against his party colleague Shashi Tharoor for his “scorpion” remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
