VINIT WAHI / NEW DELHI
Bharatiya Janata Party has termed the Congress claim that six surgical strikes were carried during the United Progressive Alliance regime as false. Briefing reporters here party spokesperson G V L Narsimha accused the Congress of misleading the people on the surgical strikes.
He said the then Air Chief Marshal had told media that in 2008 after 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, they were ready for strike inside Pakistan but did not get the permission from the government. He said, the Congress is the guilty of not allowing the armed forces to take action.
Earlier in the day, Congress spokesperson Rajiv Shukla listed the dates of the surgical strikes carried in the past. He said six surgical strikes were conducted when the UPA was in power while two were carried out during former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s regime.