Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release evidence of the surgical strikes in the Pakistani side of Kashmir.
The 46-year-old CM and leader of India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in a three-minute-long video message posted on his Facebook page, said: “My blood boils to see such reports.” Kejrival also demanded Modi to release a video footage of the strikes.
Indian government alleged Pakistan after Uri attack and claimed surgical strikes by its military on its side of the border in Kashmir region.
India’s state minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has already accepted that “no aerial operations were included in the operation”. Rathore’s remarks endorsed the version of the army’s media wing, ISPR, which insisted: “there has been no surgical strike by India, instead there had been cross-border fire initiated and conducted by India.”
“There were no aerial strikes,” Indian Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, himself an ex-Indian Army man, told The Hindu during an interview.
Rathore said the Indian Army crossed the Line of Control (LoC) “on the ground” for carrying out what he termed were “pre-emptive strikes”. “That is not like crossing the international border.”
Tensions between the two arch rivals have been boiling since the Indian government accused Pakistan-based militants of launching an assault on an army base in Uri sector of occupied Kashmir last month that killed 18 Indian army soldiers
