Trump claims 5 jets downed in India-Pak battle, Congress calls for PM’s response

The Indian defence institution, nevertheless, has shunned confirming Trump’s claims in any type. Whereas Air Marshal AK Bharti beforehand mentioned that India had downed “a number of high-tech” Pakistani plane, no figures have been launched. In the meantime, Pakistan has maintained that solely certainly one of its plane suffered “minor injury,” whereas alleging it had shot down six Indian jets—an assertion dismissed by Chief of Defence Workers Common Anil Chauhan.

Common Chauhan, talking at a defence convention earlier, mentioned, “What’s essential is just not what number of jets have been downed, however why they have been. Errors have been rectified shortly, and our counter-response was robust.”

Regardless of repeated denials from Indian officers, Trump has maintained his model of occasions. In accordance with Ramesh, this continued mismatch between US claims and Indian silence is now not tenable in a democracy. “The Parliament have to be taken into confidence. The nation deserves to know whether or not Mr Trump’s model is true, false, or half-true,” he mentioned.

With Trump’s newest feedback coming simply forward of the Parliament session, and opposition leaders getting ready to nook the federal government on a number of fronts, the controversy is predicted to take centre stage within the upcoming debates. Whether or not the Prime Minister will lastly tackle the problem stays to be seen.