Shah urges BJP leaders not to go overboard

With Wednesday night’s surgical strikes across the LoC throwing up new security challenges, the BJP has decided not to go “overboard” but offer “matured” response to what it calls is a “paradigm shift” in dealing with cross-border terrorism.

BJP president Amit Shah has conveyed this to its leaders and spokespersons given the tendency to drum it up to exploit patriotic fervour and for political gains ahead of the Assembly polls in important states of Uttar Pradesh (UP), Gujarat, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur.

The party leaders do not rule out that Shah’s decision to cancel his byte despite informing reporters on Thursday was to avoid a hype to the operation. The BJP chief instead merely released a statement, saying that the clear response to destroy terror breeding centres indicated a rise of “new India” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. He also hailed the army for carrying out the strikes successfully.