Congress demands special Parliament session after military chief’s statement on Operation Sindoor
The Congress on Saturday demanded a special Parliament session to discuss the four-day conflict with Pakistan, accusing the Union government of “misleading the nation”.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said on social media that in the wake of the comments made by Chief Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, there were “very important questions” that needed to be asked.
“These can only be done if a special Session of the Parliament is immediately convened,” Kharge added.
On Saturday, in comments viewed by some as an acknowledgement of the Indian Air Force having lost aircraft during Operation Sindoor, Chauhan told Bloomberg that what was important was “not the jet being down, but why they were being down”.
“The good part is that we are able to understand the tactical mistake which we made, remedy it, rectify it, and then implement it again after two days and flew all our jets again, targeting at long range,” the chief of defence staff was quoted as saying.
However, he said that Pakistan’s claims of having shot down six Indian Air Force fighter jets was “absolutely incorrect”.
The claims made by Islamabad have not been independently verified.
Chauhan also told Reuters that India had suffered losses in the air in the “initial stages”, but that the tactics were rectified and the Air Force “flew all types of aircraft with all...
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