NEW DELHI, Feb 15: Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani has blamed the foreign policy of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the “festering sores” of terrorism and Kashmir.
“His (Nehru’s) mishandling of Pakistan has left terrorism and Kashmir as two festering sores for our body politic right up to this day,” Advani, the chairman of BJP’s Parliamentary Board, wrote in his blog on Monday.
“The Congress has always projected Pandit Nehru as an exemplary helmsman of India’s foreign policy. (But) the founder of our political movement, Syama Prasad Mookerji, on the other hand, regarded Panditji’s handling of Pakistan, as well as China, as two egregious blunders of his,” wrote Advani quoting extensively from Fareed Zakaria’s The Post American World.
The remarks come a day after the BJP asked the Congress-led government to call off its proposed talks with Pakistan in the wake of the Pune bombing on Saturday that killed nine people.
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