Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Opposition for seeking ‘details’ of the air strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Pakistan’s Balakot.
Talking to a gathering in greater Noida, the Prime Minister stated that there are ‘sirfire’ or mentally less-than-stable people who ‘started saying at 8-9 a.m.’ — after the air strike whether it took place in Bala Kote along the Line of Control (LoC) or Balakot in Pakistan.
Calling them the ‘Tukde-Tukde’ gang, Narendra Modi stated that ‘people in India started helping’ Pakistan. Adding that Pakistan was ‘not expecting this type of answer from India’, the Prime Minister also asked the gathering that if the armed forces “are saying something, then should there be any suspicion?”
On February 26 – when the air strikes took place, conflicting reports on the sites of the aerial bombing circulated in the media till the Indian foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale read out a press statement and named the strike-targets.
Referring to this, the Prime Minister stated today that people who “have Indian blood, love for tricolour flag and chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ should not have ‘suspicions’”. He further said that while no action was taken after the November 26 Mumbai attacks carried out by terrorists from Pakistan as the ‘security forces were not given a free hand’ by the Manmohan Singh government at the Centre, such was not the case this time or after the Uri attack which resulted in ‘surgical strikes’ carried out by the Indian Army against terrorists.
Referring to the former government, the Prime Minister stated, “had they taught lessons to terrorists, they would not become so dangerous today.”
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