Mumbai, Oct 2 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday said the UPA government's decision not to strike Pakistan after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack `due to foreign pressure' amounted to "treachery".

Speaking at the annual Dusshera rally of the Shiv Sena, Shinde referred to senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram's remarks about the UPA government's decision not to resort to military action then.

"Hundreds of people died, and under someone's pressure you did not attack Pakistan. This is helplessness and cowardice. This is dishonesty with the country. It is treachery with the people of India," Shinde said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the armed forces responded strongly to the Pahalgam terror attack, he said, noting, "Blood was met wit

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