Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday sought to puncture BJP's aggression against the UPA government on national security issue by pointing to the release of terrorists during NDA rule to secure the safe return of passengers of Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar.
Responding to BJP's allegation that the Congress-led government at the Centre was soft on terror, Gandhi told an election rally here that "one should not forget that during the BJP-led government, one of its ministers (Jaswant Singh) had gone to Afghanistan to release terrorists".
She said it was Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi who sacrificed their lives fighting terrorism.
The BJP has during the electioneering in Gujarat repeatedly attacked the UPA government of weak handling of terrorism for vote bank politics and cited "delay" in the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as a case in point.
Gandhi said if Congress came to power, it would give a report of its performance every year as has been done by the UPA government at the Centre".
Gandhi said BJP "feels frustrated and threatened" by the large turnout of voters in the first phase of assembly poll last week. "The huge turnout in the first phase of polls has made it impatient," she said.
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