Congress ecosystem defence ‘expert’, Col. Ajai Shukla, floats new conspiracy theory – “ISI carried out attack to get Modi re-elected”

In a series of tweets, controversial defence analyst Col. Ajai Shukla (retd) has floated a new conspiracy theory about the Pulwama attacks, claiming that ‘Pakistan Army & ISI carried out the attack to get Modi re-elected’ as Modi in power would ‘weaken India’ more than ever and also strengthen Pakistan Army’s position in its own country.

This marks a new low, even by Lutyens’ standards. It comes days after another anti-Hindu abusive liberal and Congress supporter Sanjukta Basu had floated her own theory of Pulwama being an ‘inside job’ by PM Modi to reap votes on the ‘nationalist’ plank in coming elections.

So, the Congress ecosystem is desperately trying to spin conspiracies at both end of the spectrum – one group saying that it was an ‘inside job’ by Modi, and the other group now claiming that ISI carried out the attack to benefit Modi.

Of course, all this is being done while the more ‘neutral’ left-liberals in media desperately spin the ‘Kashmir students under attack’ & ‘why did Indian cricket-loving Adil Ahmad Dar become a terrorist’ narrative, to shift focus away from the pain the entire nation is suffering after the death of 44 soldiers.

Interestingly, while Col. Ajai Shukla has chosen to spin a reckless & dangerous conspiracy theory around the Pulwama attack, he had attacked PM Modi during the 2017 Gujarat assembly election, after Modi warned Pakistan not to meddle in elections, referring to a Facebook post by former director general of the Pakistan army Sardar Arshad Rafiq, saying that senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel should be the next Gujarat chief minister. This is what Shukla had said back then –

“Boggles the imagination that anyone can say a conspiracy with Pakistan was at play”

Incidentally, in 2015 senior Congress leader and ex-IFS officer Mani Shankar Iyer had requested for Pakistan’s help to ‘remove Modi‘ and bring Congress back to power, while speaking to a Pakistani TV channel. In 2018, while attending the Karachi literature festival, Iyer stated he was proud that Pakistan had accepted the ‘need for uninterrupted and uninterruptable dialogue while India had not’.