Cong lashes out at Shah for ‘Ilu-Ilu’ comment

During an election rally in Jalore on Friday, Shah said his party’s policy is to reply with a bombshell if Pakistan fires a bullet, while the Congress just plays “Ilu-Ilu” with terrorists. Ilu is an abbreviation for ‘I love you’ in a popular Bollywood song.

“Who had released terrorists and taken them to Kandahar in a plane?” Congress general secretary in-charge of Rajasthan Avinash Pande asked in response to Shah’s comment.

“There is no single instance where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah or any top leader or their family members even got their finger cut in the fight against terrorism but in Congress there are examples of former PMs Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and others,” he told.

Three most-wanted terrorists were released in return for the safety of passengers in an Indian Airlines plane which was hijacked to Afghanistan’s Kandahar in 1999.

Pande said when the prime minister mentions martyrs in his speeches, he should take the names of Congress leaders who had lost their lives for the country.

“The PM and the BJP are misusing social media platforms and misleading people particularly young voters through lies and distorted historic facts. Young people should think what PM Modi will give to them but it will be very late before they awaken,” he said.