Opposition criticizes Modi govt for release of soldiers’ names killed in Operation Sindoor
Defence Minister misleading Parliament: Congress
New Delhi: The political controversy in India has intensified after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government officially released the names of six soldiers killed in Operation Sindoor last year.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the opposition has said that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has been misleading Parliament because he had earlier said that not a single soldier was killed in the battle.
Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari has raised the question that if six soldiers were killed during Operation Sindoor, was the Defence Minister unaware of the facts at that time or did he deliberately provide wrong information to Parliament.
He demanded that if the government has more facts, then present them before Parliament in the next monsoon session.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Kheda also harshly criticized the Modi government and said that if Rajnath Singh was not aware of the facts of his own department, then this is his incompetence and if he was making wrong statements despite knowing the facts, then this is tantamount to misleading Parliament and the people.
It may be recalled that on July 28 last year, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, addressing the opposition during a nearly 16-hour long debate on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, had said, “If you want to ask a question, ask whether any of our soldiers were harmed in this operation? The answer to this is no, none of our soldiers were harmed.”
The BJP government on Friday, for the first time, listed the names of the six military personnel killed in Operation Sindoor on the Roll of Honour wall of the National War Memorial.
These include five Indian Army personnel and one Air Force personnel. The names of the killed soldiers are Subedar Major Pawan Kumar, Rifleman Sunil Kumar, Lance Naik Dinesh Kumar, Murali Naik, an officer recruited under the Modi government’s controversial Agniveer scheme, Havildar Sunil Kumar Singh and Air Force Sergeant Surendra Kumar.
