Masood Azhar case: It’s a great diplomatic victory for India due to Modi’s untiring efforts : Jaitley n Nirmala

The union finance minister Arun Jaitley and the defence minister Dr. Nirmala Sitaraman today said that the listing of hardcore terrorist and JEM chief Masood Azhar in the United Nation’s list of global terrorist is a huge diplomatic n political victory of India and the entire credit for the same goes to the Ministry of External Affair’s outstanding diplomatic efforts under the efficient leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi who’d been active on this front since his government came into existence at the centre.

Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley while addressing a press conference at the party headquarter in New Delhi said that the process that started in 2009, 2014 n 2017, saw several technical objections raised by China to scuttle India’s move to declare Azhar Masood as the global UN terrorist but the incessant global pressure due to Indian’s outstanding diplomatic efforts have finally made it possible by pressurising China to lift its veto.

This unambiguously exhibits India’s zero tolerance policy of terrorism and the outstanding leadership of MEA under the efficable leadership of PM Narendra Modi said Jaitley n Nirmala Sitaraman, both.

Jaitley while terming this development as a great diplomatic and political victory of his government castigated the opposition parties of not appreciating the move but saying that what’s a big deal in it ?

He said that the opposition parties have instead come forward to not to appreciate this move as a nations’s proud victory but to criticize the government by saying that surgical strikes had also happened during the UPA rule but they have never politicised them as has the BJP government did so.

Praising his government and terming the inclusion of Azhar Masood in the UN terrorist list as a ,” great diplomatic achievement for India,” the finance minister Jaitley said : If India wins, India wins but there are friends in the opposition who are not celebrating as if they will have to pay a heavy price fir this appreciation or celebration.

The union Defence minister Dr. Nirmala Sitaraman said this UN decision is a clearcut vindication of India’s stand of its zero tolerence policy on terrorism and this declaration from UN is noteworthy. She categorically said that the persistent efforts of the Ministry of External Affairs under the leadership of prime minister and his own untiring efforts and visits to global nations to exert pressure on them against Pakistan has resulted in this very development taking place.

She added that as per the data available about 35 hard core terror sancturies are being run in Pakistan with the aid and abetment of Pakistan n Masood Azhar was the most dreaded terrorist out of them. It was due to the persistent n untiring efforts of the prime minister Modi that this could finally happen. We want that the entire nation should be made aware of this fact.

However, it may be recalled that the India’s representative to the United Nation Syed akbarruddin who has played a vital role in the whole exercise had already said that it was during the tenure of Dr. Manmohan Singh as the prime minister that the then UPA government had strongly filed a request for declaring JEM chief as a global terrorist in the UN list.