Mumbai, March 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s invite to his Pakistani counterpart for tomorrow’s cricket World Cup semi-final match between the two nations has brought to fore divergent view among top leaders of long-time allies BJP and Shiv Sena.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani had said here yesterday that he had no objection to India inviting the Pakistan President and the Prime Minister for the World Cup semi-final cricket match at Mohali as long as there is zero tolerance to terrorism.
However, the leader of BJP’s oldest ally, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, in a terse statement here today, launched a scathing attack on the government for the invitation and flayed the “so-called cricket diplomacy”.
“There is going to be a cricket war in Mohali (during the India-Pak match tomorrow).
—Pti