New Delhi | Congress leader Rajeev Shukla claimed that India conducted “six surgical strikes” across the border into Pakistan between 2008 and 2014.
In a press conference in New Delhi, he gave the names of six dates along with places where the strikes were carried out.
The first strike, was conducted on June 19, 2008, in Bhattal Sector in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch. The second was conducted from August 30-September 1, 2011, in the Sharda sector across the Neelam River Valley in Kel, ANI quoted him as saying.
He said that a third surgical strike took place on January 6, 2013, at Sawan Patra Checkpost; another on July 27 and July 28, 2013, at Nazapir Sector; a fifth one on August 6, 2013 at Neelam Valley; and the sixth one on January 14, 2014.
These dates are all according to Rajeev Shukla, as he announced in the conference.
This is the first time Congress has backed its claim of surgical strikes with the exact date and places.
“Multiple surgical strikes took place during our tenure too. For us, military operations were meant for strategic deterrence and giving a befitting reply to anti-India forces than to be used for vote garnering exercises,” former PM Manmohan Singh said in an interview with HT today.
The UPA was in power between 2004 and 2014.
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