300 terrorist dead, Yes or No? What was the purpose then? Were you uprooting terrorist or trees? Was it an electio… https://t.co/Isr5hdWQDY — Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) 1551679778000

Stop politicising the army for your political motives Army is as sacred as the state! Stop deflecting the real is… https://t.co/okog9wNKyC — Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) 1551695375000

JALANDHAR: Punjab local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday questioned the Modi government on the number of terrorists killed in the IAF air strike at Balakot .Launching the offensive, Sidhu tweeted: “300 terrorists dead, Yes or No? What was the purpose then? Were you uprooting terrorists or trees? Was it an election gimmick? Deceit possesses our land in guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Stop politicising the Army, it is as sacred as the state. Unchee dukaan feekqa pakvaan”. He also attached a quote attributed to Greek tragedian Aeschylus, “In war, truth is the first casualty.”Next he tweeted: “Skimmed milk masquerades as cream, things are seldom as they seem” along with a couplet , “Kya miliye ese logon se jinki fitrat chhupi huee rahe, nakli chehra saamne aae aslee surat chhupi rahe.”After retweeting series of tweets by former Union minister P Chidambram who also questioned the claims of the number of those killed in the air strike, Sidhu attacked the Modi government again for politicising the Army in another tweet. “Stop politicising the Army for your political motives. Army is sacred as the state! Stop deflecting the real issues, they will come back to haunt you. Job loss; black money; 1,708 terrorist acts; NPAs; farmers suicides. All this gone, because your so-called propaganda war is on.”As PM Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders have attacked opposition for asking questions about the air strike, Sidhu retorted by attaching a quote attributed to William Ellery Channing: “The cry has been that when war is declared all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”He also attached James Madison’s quote : “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”