In this August 9, 2014 file photo, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah (R) speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a BJP National Council meeting at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.

NEW DELHI: India’s leading opposition party has launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for trivializing national security issues by revealing dubious details about a suspicious boat that sank after being intercepted by the Coast Guard in Indian waters last week.

While India’s Defense Ministry prepares to evaluate the communication logs from the so-called “terror boat,” the ruling party has accused the Congress of speaking in Pakistan’s voice.

The Congress has retorted by saying it didn’t need lessons from the “chaperones of terrorism.”

Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar has asked the government to “come clean” on the Pakistani boat issue and explain “which terrorist organization” was behind the episode that unfolded on the high seas. He also questioned how the government can claim that a terror strike has been prevented without any evidence.

Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari reminded the BJP that its leadership had escorted known terrorists to freedom in the case of the IC814 hijacking in 1999. “The government needs to put all the facts in the case in the public space,” Tewari told Times Now.

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