Amid row over Rahul Gandhi‘s speech at Cambridge University the place he touched upon numerous points together with Pegasus, his expertise on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri criticised the Congress chief for his ‘militants could not do anything‘ remark. “Because in the 80s, your father did nothing to the terrorists. So it was a return gift,” Vivek Agnihotri wrote in a jibe at Rahul Gandhi. Read | From Pegasus to Bharat Jodo Yatra: 5 points from Rahul Gandhi’s Cambridge speech

As Rahul Gandhi spoke about his expertise of the Bharat Jodo Yatra at Cambridge University, he recounted an incident in Kashmir the place an individual who got here as much as him whereas he was strolling confirmed him a number of males standing in a distance and advised Rahul Gandhi that they had been terrorists. Rahul Gandhi mentioned he felt he was in hassle as he noticed the “militants” him. He additionally checked out them and the yatra went on and nothing occurred. Rahul Gandhi mentioned the “militants” couldn’t do something even when they needed to as he went there to take heed to the individuals of Kashmir with no violence in him.

Vivek Agnihotri referred to as the gesture of the militants a “return gift”.

Over a number of factors of Rahul Gandhi’s speech, the BJP criticised him, the ‘militant’ account being one in every of them. BJP’s Amit Malviya mentioned this was really a Freudian slip of Rahul Gandhi the place the Congress chief admitted that terrorists at the moment are “powerless” in Kashmir. “After conceding that post abrogation of Article 370 nationalistic fervour is on the rise in the Valley, Kashmiri youth are asserting their Indian identity more than ever before, Rahul Gandhi, in a Freudian slip now admits that militants in Kashmir are powerless…,” Malviya tweeted.

In a press meet on Saturday, BJP’s Sambit Patra mentioned, “Rahul Gandhi said he saw militants in Kashmir. He said security collapsed in Kashmir but terrorists did not do anything to Rahul Gandhi as he had non-violence inside him. Does that mean all those innocent people who have been killed in the Valley had violence inside them? What does this mean?”

Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate deal with a press convention amid the political row and mentioned the criticism of Rahul Gandhi’s speech by the BJP is hole. “Can the government deny that there is terrorism in Kashmir? What is wrong with that statement? It is a different thing that the government will promote a film but will not protect the Kashmiri pandits,” Supriya Shrinate mentioned.