Katihar, Nov. 8 -- Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey on Saturday accused former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of compromising national security for electoral gains, alleging that her government ignored warnings about Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme for "vote bank politics."

Speaking to ANI in Katihar, Dubey claimed that had Pakistan not become a nuclear state, it "would have been destroyed and divided into pieces."

Referring to an alleged declassified CIA document, he alleged that Indira Gandhi had considered sharing India's nuclear technology with Pakistan after the 1974 test "for her vote bank politics."

"Had Pakistan not been a nuclear state, what would its value have been? It would have been destroyed and divided into p...