Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing critique of historical decisions surrounding Kashmir, declaring that the root of India’s enduring struggle with terrorism lies in the events of 1947—when, according to him, the first terrorist attack on Indian soil took place, and a decisive response was fatally deferred.
“In 1947, when Mother India was partitioned into three parts… that very night, the first terror attack occurred on the soil of Kashmir. One part of Mother India was forcibly taken over by Pakistan in the name of ‘mujahideen’. On that day, those so-called mujahideen should have been thrown into the pit of death,” thundered the Prime Minister, addressing a gathering in Gujarat.
Modi invoked the legacy of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first Home Minister, suggesting that Patel’s advice in the immediate aftermath of Partition was willfully ignored by the then Congress leadership. “And it was Sardar Patel’s wish that until POK is taken back, the army should not stop. But Sardar Sahib’s words were not followed,” he asserted.
According to the Prime Minister, Patel had insisted that any military campaign against Pakistan in 1947 should not have been undertaken without first reclaiming Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Modi implied that the Congress government’s failure to heed Patel’s counsel laid the groundwork for decades of bloodshed.
He further reminded the enduring consequences of that initial negligence: “And the bloodshed by these mujahideen has been continuing for the last 75 years. What happened in Pahalgaon was just a distorted form of the same. …The Indian Army has defeated Pakistan every time. Pakistan understood that it cannot win from India.”
Slamming Islamabad’s role, Modi rejected the notion that India is facing a mere proxy war.
“Terrorism isn’t proxy war, it is your war strategy. You are waging war on us,” he said, openly calling out Pakistan for orchestrating a prolonged, state-backed campaign of cross-border terrorism. According to him, this is not the work of rogue elements, but “a well-planned war by Pakistan”.
Unsurprisingly, the Congress party hit back hard. Spokesperson Pawan Khera accused the Prime Minister of distorting history for political ends. “He has no idea of history or basic democratic courtesy. What were his ideological forefathers doing in 1947? They were criticising Patel, burning his effigies, making cartoons of Sardar Patel, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi, the famous cartoon of Ravan with ten heads. Don’t take the PM seriously,” Khera retorted.
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