An embarassed Janata Dal United on Sunday pulled up its ministers Bhim Singh and Narendra Singh for their remarks on the killings of five Indian soldiers along the Line of Control in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir on August 6. The ministers have now been asked to explain their remarks.
The party had distanced itself from ministers' remarks. Party chief Sharad Yadavsaid the ministers' statements were against the party policy. "We have asked both of them to explain their statements in a week. In case they fail to do so, disciplinary action will be taken," he said.
Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had also expressed regret over ministers' remarks.
Bihar's Rural Works Minister Bhim Singh had earlier this week said soldiers join the army to become martyrs while Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh had said Pakistan should not be blamed for LoC killings and had said that the attack might have been carried out by terrorists from across the border in the disguise of Pakistani soldiers.
He had also described Pakistan as India's 'younger brother' and a neighbour during a press conference in his native Jamui district.
Singh had also come to the rescue of his beleaguered colleague Bhim Singh, who holds Rural Works and Panchayati Raj departments in the Nitish Kumar government, saying that the matter related to his insensitive remarks that policemen and soldiers are recruited in service to make sacrifices for the nation should be closed in the wake of the latter's unqualified apology.
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