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Bangalore explosion will reap votes for BJP, tweets Cong leader
Wednesday April 17, 2013 05:22:53 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The explosion near Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office will help the party in next
month's assembly elections, Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad said
Wednesday.
"If the blast near BJP's office in Banglore is a terror attack, it
will certainly help the BJP politically on the eve of election,"
Ahmad said on Twitter. The election will be held May 5.
His remarks were criticised by the BJP as unwarranted and uncalled
for.
"Such remarks are uncalled for and should not have come from a
senior Congress leader. The party (Congress) has already accepted
defeat in Karnataka," said BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi.
Sixteen people were injured, two of them seriously, in the
explosion in crowded residential locality of Malleshwaram in north
Bangalore.
The Congress party however distanced
itselg from Shakeel Ahmad's remarks.
"Any terror incident is a matter of
concern... it is a national and international problem... it is a
challenge for the country... it should not be seen as political
gain," Dwivedi told reporters after the blast in Bangalore, in
which 16 people were injured.
The Congress distanced itself from Shakeel Ahmad's tweet, saying
the party had nothing to do with it and it was his personal view.
"I have not seen his tweet. What he said is his personal view and
the party has nothing to do with it," added Minister of State for
Home R.P.N. Singh.
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