The Congress today distanced itself from Party's Mumbai unit chief Sanja Nirupam remark suggesting that surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army across the LoC in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK)as "fake"
"Congress does not agree with the statements made by Sanjay Nirupam, we have taken a serious note of it, "Party spokesperson RS Surjewala said in a press conference.
However, Party urged the central government to expose Pakistan's false propaganda and to put the evidences in public domain.
" It's time that Government of India should unmask Pak's false propaganda by revealing & making public the evidences," he said.
Earlier today, Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam termed the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army across the LoC in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK)as "fake" and accused the BJP of making political capital out of it.
"Every Indian wants surgical strikes against Pakistan but not a fake one to extract just political benefit by BJP. politics over national interest(sic)," Nirupam tweeted.
Later talking to reporters, Nirupam said it is upto the government to prove the surgical strikes did take place.
He said his party was of the view that Pakistan should be punished.
"The way BJP was indulging in politics, putting up banners and taking credit gives a view whether such strikes did happen. In Goa, the Defence Minister (Manohar Parrikar) is being publicly felicitated. Why were earlier surgical strikes not announced in a press conference? Why was a press conference done now (by DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh)?. Was there any pressure from the government?" he asked.
Army conducted surgical strikes on seven terror launch pads along the LoC on the intervening night of September 28 and 29, inflicting "significant casualties" on terrorists preparing to infiltrate from PoK.
Pakistan, however, has been dismissing the claim as "fabrication of truth" and said India was creating "media hype" by re-branding cross-border fire as surgical strikes.
