‘Congress Should Cease Mendacity’: BJP Hits Again At ‘Surgical Strikes Throughout UPA’ Declare
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Calling it corrupt on the subject of “numbers associated to nationwide safety”, the BJP slammed the Congress for making contradictory claims about surgical strikes performed below UPA
The BJP has stated no surgical strikes had been performed below the UPA authorities. (Picture: AFP/File)
In a robust response to claims made by the Congress of surgical strikes below the UPA authorities, the BJP stated the Grand Outdated Celebration should cease telling lies on the subject of issues associated to nationwide safety.
Calling it “corrupt” and “cowardly”, on the subject of nationwide safety, the BJP slammed the Congress for making self-contradictory claims about surgical strikes performed below the UPA authorities. When, in truth, there have been no such operations performed below the UPA authorities as confirmed by the response of the Director Normal Navy Operations (DGMO) to a 2018 RTI question, it stated.
“Congress is corrupt, even on the subject of numbers associated to nationwide safety. Nevertheless, there have been no surgical strikes below UPA as confirmed by the DGMO in response to an RTI question dated April 2018. Darpok Congress should STOP LYING,” the BJP stated in a publish on X.
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— BJP (@BJP4India) Could 29, 2025
In its publish, the BJP cited a 2018 report printed by Hindustan Occasions wherein senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has claimed that three surgical strikes had been performed below the UPA authorities. It additionally cited claims of six surgical strikes below the UPA authorities between 2008 and 2014, made by the Congress in a social media publish on Thursday.
WHAT IS THE CONTROVERSY?
The political back-and-forth between the BJP and Congress over surgical strikes was triggered by MP Shashi Tharoor, who stated India breached the Line of Management (LoC) for the primary time in 2016 to hold out surgical strikes regardless of his get together’s claims that related operations passed off below the Manmohan Singh-led authorities however had been by no means publicised.
In Panama, Tharoor lauded India’s counter-terrorism measures, together with the 2016 Uri surgical strike and the 2019 Balakot airstrike, as marking a shift within the nation’s strategy to terrorism. He, nonetheless, clarified and identified in a publish on X that he spoke solely about reprisals for terrorist assaults and never about earlier wars.
The Indian Military, each in a 2016 press convention and an RTI reply, had stated what Tharoor has now reiterated. The Military’s Northern Command chief in 2019, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had stated after the surgical strikes in September 2016 that this was a primary.
He had quoted a 2018 RTI reply given by the DGMO, which clarified that the primary such surgical strike was carried out in 2016. “Military doesn’t have any information pertaining to surgical strikes if carried out earlier than September 29, 2016,” the RTI reply stated, upon a question if surgical strikes occurred between 2004 and 2014 below the tenure of the UPA authorities as effectively.
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