Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Opposition for seeking \u2018details\u2019 of the air strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Pakistan’s Balakot.<\/p>\n
Talking to a gathering in greater Noida, the Prime Minister stated that there are \u2018sirfire\u2019 or mentally less-than-stable people who \u2018started saying at 8-9 a.m.\u2019 — after the air strike whether it took place in Bala Kote along the Line of Control (LoC) or Balakot in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Calling them the \u2018Tukde-Tukde\u2019 gang, Narendra Modi stated that \u2018people in India started helping\u2019 Pakistan. Adding that Pakistan was \u2018not expecting this type of answer from India\u2019, the Prime Minister also asked the gathering that if the armed forces \u201care saying something, then should there be any suspicion?\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Referring to this, the Prime Minister stated today that people who “have Indian blood, love for tricolour flag and chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai\u2019 should not have \u2018suspicions\u2019”. He further said that while no action was taken after the November 26 Mumbai attacks carried out by terrorists from Pakistan as the \u2018security forces were not given a free hand\u2019 by the Manmohan Singh government at the Centre, such was not the case this time or after the Uri attack which resulted in \u2018surgical strikes\u2019 carried out by the Indian Army against terrorists.<\/p>\n
Referring to the former government, the Prime Minister stated, \u201chad they taught lessons to terrorists, they would not become so dangerous today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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