Trump says 5 jets shot down throughout India-Pak battle; Congress seeks Modi’s assertion

After US President Donald Trump’s comment that “5 jets had been shot down” through the battle between India and Pakistan, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make clear and asserted that the nation has the correct to know the reality.

Questioning the prime minister’s “silence”, the Congress additionally demanded that PM Modi give a “clear and categorical” assertion in Parliament on the US chief’s claims on the India-Pakistan battle over the past 70 days.

The opposition occasion’s assertion got here after Trump mentioned “5 jets had been shot down” through the battle between India and Pakistan in Might, whereas repeating his assertion that the preventing ended following his intervention.

In a submit in Hindi on X, Gandhi mentioned, “Modiji, what’s the reality in regards to the 5 jets? The nation has a proper to know!”

Talking on the White Home throughout a dinner he hosted for Republican senators on Friday (18 July), Trump mentioned: “You had India, Pakistan, that was going in reality, planes had been being shot out of the air… 4 or 5. However I feel 5 jets had been shot down, really, that was getting worse and worse, wasn’t it?

“That was wanting prefer it was going to go, these are two severe nuclear nations, they usually had been hitting one another,” he mentioned.