Bhopal: Reviving the debate over the surgical strike carried out in Pakistan's Balakot last year, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday asked PM Narendra Modi to tell Indians more about the strike.
Addressing a mass marriage function in his home town in Chhindwara, Nath recounted late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s tenure when 90,000 Pakistan soldiers had surrendered before Indian forces after a war over Bangladesh's liberation.
"But these people would only talk about surgical strike. Which surgical strike, why don’t you tell the country about this strike," asked Nath. "They are out teaching us nationalism, so I wish to urge Modiji to furnish a single name who was a freedom fighter and later was in BJP," he further said.
"I am only speaking about Indira Gandhi making 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrender- arresting them is one thing and surgical strike is another. I have no doubt about the strikes, but I am saying that the nation must be told the details— how and where were they carried out? What was the outcome? I am only saying this," Nath told the media after the function.
Retaliating to Nath's tweet, his predecessor Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that various incidents that took place post the surgical strike proved its veracity.
Chouhan referred to the following incidents that occurred after the Balakot strikes- Pakistan's declaration of an emergency, the neighbouring country's closure of the airspace for flights, Pakistan resorting to a failed F-16 attack and more. Such incidents, he said, were enough to prove that India had conducted a surgical strike in Pakistan.
“Kamal Nathji! Keep your eyes open, you would see the truth of Balakot,” claimed Chouhan.
Meanwhile, Nath of Thursday inaugurated a state-of-the-art cowshed built at a cost of Rs 30 lakh. Many of such cowsheds were already in existence, claimed Nath, alleging that the BJP only offered lip service on cow conservation in its 15-years rule.
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