Oppn may have to pay for Azhar’s listing: Jaitley

Npnews24 online: oppositions are reluctant to celebrate achievement, post listing of Masood Azhar as a global terrorist, said senior BJP leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Addressing a press conference at the party office, Jaitley said, ‘’ there was a tradition in the country to speak in one voice on issue such as external affairs and national security but there has been departure from it in the Last few years.

Listing Azhar as global terrorist is a ‘’great diplomatic achievement for India’’, the finance minister said, ‘’ If India wins, India win, but there are friends in opposition who are not celebrating it as they may have to pay a political price for it.’’

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who was accompanying Jaitely at the press conference, attributed modi for the success of this sanction. ’’Terrorism shall not be tolerated and this declaration from UN is noteworthy. It is the result of consistent effort taken by Ministry of external affairs, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’, she said.