Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa on Wednesday claimed that India's violation if Pakistan's airspace has "created a wave in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi" and will help the party win over 22 of 28 seats in the state in the coming Lok Sabha polls.
Scroll.in reports that BJP and Modi stuck to their political schedule, despite war fears and a captured Indian pilot and are yet to make a statement on the recent incident.
From the report:
"Even after Pakistan had officially claimed that it had hit and brought down two Indian aircraft, the only response from New Delhi seemed to be off-the-record comments to specific media, saying “all Indian Air Force pilots had been accounted for”. Indeed, almost all of the communication emanating from the government seemed to be in the form of unidentified sources giving details to reporters, or directly to the private news agency ANI, an approach that has prompted some to say that the Indian media is being used primarily to amplify the Indian government’s propaganda rather than holding it accountable.
Without an official response, however, the news and videos emerging from Pakistan about a captured Indian pilot flew all over the internet. Pakistan’s military spokesperson then even addressed a press conference about the captured pilot."
