Jana Sena founder Pawan Kalyan’s comments on India-Pakistan tensions have become a foot-in-mouth moment for the party. His remarks that he knew of a ‘war’ between India and Pakistan have become controversial at a time when the tensions between the two countries have escalated at the border. He also went ahead and blatantly claimed that BJP leaders ‘told him about this war between Indian and Pakistan, two years ago and that they also told him it would happen before Lok Sabha elections.’
What has come as a twist in the tale is that Pawan Kalyan’s comments have been picked by Pakistani media and are being aired continuously. The Pakistani media is now airing it constantly and projecting that ‘India wanted to created a war-like situation’ and his comments are helping the country blame India internationally.
While his ‘josh’ to comment is noticeable, his comments are very unfortunate and could have been avoided, say political observers. With these comments, not only has he proved that he is unaware of the seriousness of a proxy war and the current tense atmosphere between the two countries, but he is also unaware of the implications of such careless statements, which could put India in a bad light internationally.
Pawan Kalyan tried to clarify on this scenario, that he spoke only what some of our Indian political analysts said and there was no information from Pakistan or any other source in this regard.
Let us hope that in such a volatile scenario between the two countries, some sense prevails among politicians and celebrities who are rushing to comment rather than stop and think whether they make sense.
