Congress: Jaishankar claim vindicates party’s position

Politics over the crossborder strikes has once again taken centrestage as the Congress has latched on to the remarks of the foreign secretary, S. Jaishankar.

The Congress claims that the foreign secretary had said that the Army had carried out “target specific, limited-calibre, counter-terrorist operations” across LoC in the past too.

Something which contradicts what the defence minister Manohar Parrikar has been saying.

The communications incharge of the Congress Randeep Singh Surjewala “hoped that Jaishanker would not get axed like his predecessor, Sujatha Singh, for speaking the truth and exposing BJP’s deception.

“Modi government’s rhetoric, bravado and machismo’s exposed by FS, Jaishankar. Amit Shah’s and Parrikar’s lies lie exposed,”he said.

National spokesperson of the Congress Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi criticisied the central government and asked whether “it looks good that the defence minister is being contradicted by the foreign secretary?”

Mr Singhvi also charged the Prime Minister of looking the other way while the issue is being politicised right under his nose.

The Congress now feels that its stand has been vindicated as this alleged comment proves that the UPA also carried out surgical strikes during its regime.

Sources said that the statements of the foreign secretary will be raised in both the Houses of Parliament starting November 16.

The Congress had accused the government of trying to draw political capital from the cross-border surgical strikes, especially, with in view of the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand.

Controversy now also surrounds the defence minister giving credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to the RSS ideology for the Indian Army’s successful surgical attack on terror launchpads in PoK.