"These people with 56-inch chests, you would recall, in their previous government, the current National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, went in an aircraft with Masood Azharji and handed over Masood Azhar in Kandahar," he said.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s recent statement labelling JeM terrorist chief Masood Azhar as ‘Masood Azhzaji’ has set the cat among the pigeons.

Hitting out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the issue of national security, the Congress chief said 40 CRPF personnel were killed in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack carried out by the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), whose chief Masood Azhar was released from jail by the saffron party.

"These people with 56-inch chests, you would recall, in their previous government, the current National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, went in an aircraft with Masood Azharji and handed over Masood Azhar in Kandahar," he said.

While his statement has been roundly condemned by Union Ministers, a CRPF martyr’s father has already taken great exception to his utterance.

Ajit Kumar Azad’s father Pyaare Laal told Zee Media in Unnao that Rahul Gandhi calling the Jaish terrorist chief Masood Azharji was absolutely wrong.



He added that when a soldier was killed, parties made a lot of tall promises but later one could hardly find any of them willing to help. He said that security from the martyr’s memorial was withdrawn as soon as the Code of Conduct was enforced