Congress president Rahul Gandhi assailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for saying that the Congress-led UPA government ordered surgical strikes only on paper and videogames. He said the prime minister has insulted the armed forces with his remark.
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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh slammed the Modi government for politicization of the armed forces and anti-terror operations. He said it was “shameful” how Prime Minister Narendra Modi was using the 2016 surgical strike as well as the recent Balakot air strike for votes.
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Nirmala Sitharaman claimed that the opposition had been constantly coming up with the allegation that armed forces were being politicized and further questioned on how is it wrong to talk about political will giving freedom to the forces to take action as they deem is right.
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Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP and expressed her solidarity with the military veterans who have written to President Ram Nath Kovind, expressing outrage over alleged use the armed forces for political purposes.
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Mamata Banerjee demanded details of India’s air strike on a Jaish-e-Muhammad camp at Pakistan’s Balakot be made public and said that there should not be war between the two countries because of “political compulsions”.
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