Lucknow: On Sunday, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre and claimed that the National Democratic Alliance government is using the tense situation in Jammu and Kashmir to cover up their failures.

Mayawati said in Lucknow state that “India is worried about the terror attacks that are taking place in Jammu and Kashmir for the last few days. It is not hidden how BJP, especially PM Modi, are trying to hide their failures in the garb of what is happening there,”. The BSP supremo took a jibe at the Prime Minister, accusing him of “ignoring” issues pertaining to national security for “his political interests”.

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She further said “Instead of concentrating on matters of national security, PM Narendra Modi is trying to serve political interests by addressing BJP workers at a time India is facing stiff hostility and needs firm leadership. It is ridiculous, besides betrayal of national sentiments,”,  Banned Pakistani terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out a brutal attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans on February 14 in Awantipora area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. The attack took place around 3:30 pm after a suicide bomber, identified as local boy Adil Ahmad Dar, in a car loaded with 350 kilograms of explosives rammed into a convoy of 78 vehicles carrying over 2500 CRPF personnel on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway.

Following the attack, Indian Air Force fighter jets on February 26 launched a major offensive against terrorist organisations using Pakistani soil to carry out terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and annihilated training camps of the Jaish-e-Mohammed in Balakot that falls in the Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa region, along with Muzaffarabad and Chakothi in PoK.

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The IAF attack was carried out by 12 Mirage 2000 fighter jets, ably aided by Sukhoi jets that provided cover throughout the operation, around 3:30 am. The payload dropped by the Indian Air Force weighed as much as 1000 kilogrammes. The very next morning, Pakistan Air Force jets entered Indian airspace from Nowshera sector but were immediately sent back by IAF jets on February 27.