LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday took a dig at the BJP for going ahead with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to party workers amid Pakistan.

SP chief took to Twitter and wrote, "When the entire nation is standing along with the government as an Indian rising above politics, BJP is going to make a record of contact with booth-level workers. ..even the BJP supporters are ashamed of this." He further said, "The situation could be very bad but this suited-booted BJP will continue with its festivities...condemnable.”

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The statement of the SP chief came after Prime Minister Modi on Thursday interacted with over 1 crore BJP workers and volunteers from 15,000 locations across the country in what the party claims is the world's largest video conference.

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 In another tweet, the SP chief said. "It has been nearly 24 hrs since our pilot has gone missing. On the other hand 6 brave IAF personnel lost their lives in a helicopter crash. The nation is praying. We're all waiting with baited breath but not a word from our leadership. The silence is deafening."

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A day after the Air Strike, an IAF pilot was captured by Pakistan after an air combat Wednesday during which the two sides said they shot down each other's warplanes that followed an unsuccessful attempt to target Indian military installations in retaliatory strikes.