Tharoor hits back at ‘zealots’ after Congress flak over surgical strike remarks

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Tharoor hits back at 'zealots' after Congress flak over surgical strike remarks



Citing examples, Raj said the Indian Army had entered Pakistan at multiple points during the 1965 war, surprising Pakistani forces in the Lahore sector. He also referenced the 1971 war, when India played a decisive role in the creation of Bangladesh, and noted that several surgical strikes took place under the UPA government—albeit without the accompanying “drum beating” for political gain.“How could you be so dishonest to the party which gave you so much?” asked Raj, who is chairman of the Unorganised Workers and Employees Congress (Other Than Professionals).Raj’s post was reposted by Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh and the party’s media and publicity department head Pawan Khera, signalling coordinated disapproval.Khera, in a separate post, shared a historic photograph of Indian Army officers from the 4 Sikh Regiment outside a captured Pakistani police station in Burki during the 1965 war. He added context to the image, pointing out that Burki is a village southeast of Lahore, located just 11 km from the city’s Allama Iqbal International Airport.



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