New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge Justice Markandey Katju wondered whether our rulers are agents of some foreign powers. On a Facebook post, he reminded that if India and Pakistan go to war, the mentioned foreign powers will benefit from it. With war, nothing can be done for the good of the people, and all the money for the welfare of the people will go to buying weapons, and they will have to suffer, he suggested.
“Are our rulers not agents of some foreign power who, like a 'madaari', makes his monkeys fight, for his own benefit?” the former judge wondered.
He wrote, Both India and Pakistan are poor countries which cannot afford a war, as wars are very expensive affairs. We have to buy all our heavy weapons from foreign countries at a huge cost, and these countries benefit if we fight as their sales of weapons increase, while we suffer because we have to waste our precious resources in buying these foreign weapons, instead of on the welfare of our people. Our people do not have enough food, electricity, water, jobs, housing, education, road, healthcare and much more. Yet the rulers on both sides want us to fight. Are our rulers not agents of some foreign power who like a 'madaari' makes his monkeys fight, for his own benefit?”
Meanwhile, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh claimed on Thursday, that at least 100 terrorists were killed in Indian strikes on terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under 'Operation Sindoor', according to sources. The minister emphasised that the operation is ongoing and assured that India will retaliate if Pakistan responds to the targeted strikes.