Congress targets Modi, Rajnath Singh over Gen Anil Chauhan's Operation Sindoor revelation: 'CDS made our demand relevant'

The Congress on Sunday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh over Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Anil Chauhan's recent revelation regarding Operation Sindoor. Congress said the CDS's comments have only made the opposition's demand for a special parliament session relevant.

 

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, targeting Centre charged, "It would have been better that what he (CDS) has spoken, the defence minister should have said it in the two all-party meetings he had chaired. Whatever Gen Chauhan has said, this information should have been shared with the opposition leaders, and a special session of the Parliament should have been convened; we had to wait for General Chauhan to make these revelations from Singapore," ANI reported.

 

Highlighting the Vajpayee government formed a review committee after Kargil war and the report was tabled in Parliament, Ramesh said, "The issues that Gen Chauhan raised are critical and they impinge not just on military strategy, they impinge on foreign policy, economic strategy and diplomatic strategy."

 

The Congress leader also questioned the silence of the prime minister and Centre over US President Donald Trump's claims of stopping the India-Pakistan conflict in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor. "President Trump has repeated the same point he has been making for 21 days. He has claimed to have mediated and brokered the ceasefire, the new thing he has said is about nuclear escalation. He has reiterated his trade and tariffs threat as well... Our Prime Minister is silent. He has not responded to what President Trump has been saying. He is targeting the Congress party when he should be targeting Pakistan," Ramesh charged. 

 

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the three-day-long Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore, Gen Chauhan admitted that India faced losses during the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor. However, Gen Chauhan did not specifics regarding the losses. "What was important is why did these losses occur and what did we do after that. So we rectified tactics and then went back in large numbers to hit air bases deep inside Pakistan, penetrated all their air defenses with impunity, carried out precision strikes.”

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