Should I have asked army to take along Rahul for surgical strikes: Parrikar

July 17, 2018 10:08

Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar ridiculed the Congress for questioning the veracity of the surgical strike conducted by the army in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 2016.

Taking a jibe at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, the Goa chief minister said, "When we did the surgical strike, the opposition parties said that they never happened. I would have taken the opposition party on the surgical strike. I would have told the army to take Rahul Gandhi and do the surgical strike".

"If you want to do a surgical strike, then the most important thing is secrecy. Only four people were knowing about the strike including the prime minister, me, the army chief and the director general of military operations besides Army's Zone Commander and the Commander in Srinagar," he said.

The army had reported on September 29, 2016, eleven days after the Uri attack that claimed 18 jawans, that it had conducted surgical strikes against suspected militant launch pads in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.

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