Indian backflip - ‘Air strikes were meant to warn, not kill.’ says Union minister Ahluwalia

[Chakar The Great]

KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker SS Ahluwalia on Friday stirred a major controversy after he claimed that the airstrike conducted by the Indian Air Force on Jaish-e-Mohammad camps was not aimed at causing casualties but to give a message to Pakistan.

"The reason of the air strike was to give a clear message that we can go near your house and destroy you. This message had to be conveyed that despite your security arrangements, we can still destroy you. We did not want any human casualties," The BJP MP from Darjeeling constituency said.

He added that neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor any party spokesperson has claimed that as many as 300 people were killed in the airstrike. "I have read in the national as well as in the international media. I have also heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first speech in Churu after the airstrike. He had not said that 300 were killed. Has any spokesperson of BJP said that? Has Amit Shah said that anywhere?" he asked.


Speaking at the inauguration of West Bengal's first digital village in Siliguri on Friday, Ahluwalia said that as many as 130 government services will be provided through Common Service Centre. "Free wifi of speed up to 4 Mbps will be provided for a month, after that users can pay Rs 10 and download 1GB of data," he said.

On being quizzed on the demand of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders to vote for the son of the soil, he said, "Son of the soil would mean born anywhere in the state – Kurseong or Kalimpong, Chopra or Phasidawa. I am a son of the soil and was born in Bengal's Asansol, I too have a domicile certificate. People who are making such demands were born in Nepal."



Source: Zee News

 

[I S I]

But still we got revenge of our innocent trees & a mujahid crow...with interests.

 

[macnurv]

We shall not forgive India for that Crow, after all he was Pakistani Crow.

 

[Maarkhoor]

govt to release the full evidences.

Just like they release the full footage of Sar g Kal strike 1

 

[Dubious]

Crow

RIP Shahzaz the crow

 

[SrNair]

Just like they release the full footage of Sar g Kal strike 1

They released and your forces keep your mouth shut

 

[Maarkhoor]

They released and your forces keep your mouth shut

When they release oohh you are talking about URI the movie

 

[rambro]

Isnt it better for them to just stop talking
Dont they have enough humiliation already?

 

[American Pakistani]

They released and your forces keep your mouth shut

The one they released in bollywood movie?

 

[SrNair]

The one they released in bollywood movie?

Dont worry .
We will do it again ,if your govt mind in their own business

 

[Riz]

A surgical strike which maybe results in defeat for modi but here in Pak IK solids his position in next election .

 

[Maxpane]

 

[SHAH07]

KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker SS Ahluwalia on Friday stirred a major controversy after he claimed that the airstrike conducted by the Indian Air Force on Jaish-e-Mohammad camps was not aimed at causing casualties but to give a message to Pakistan.

"The reason of the air strike was to give a clear message that we can go near your house and destroy you. This message had to be conveyed that despite your security arrangements, we can still destroy you. We did not want any human casualties," The BJP MP from Darjeeling constituency said.

He added that neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor any party spokesperson has claimed that as many as 300 people were killed in the airstrike. "I have read in the national as well as in the international media. I have also heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first speech in Churu after the airstrike. He had not said that 300 were killed. Has any spokesperson of BJP said that? Has Amit Shah said that anywhere?" he asked.


Speaking at the inauguration of West Bengal's first digital village in Siliguri on Friday, Ahluwalia said that as many as 130 government services will be provided through Common Service Centre. "Free wifi of speed up to 4 Mbps will be provided for a month, after that users can pay Rs 10 and download 1GB of data," he said.

On being quizzed on the demand of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders to vote for the son of the soil, he said, "Son of the soil would mean born anywhere in the state – Kurseong or Kalimpong, Chopra or Phasidawa. I am a son of the soil and was born in Bengal's Asansol, I too have a domicile certificate. People who are making such demands were born in Nepal."



Source: Zee News

Link ?

 

[Baghial]

Ahluwalia said neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor BJP chief Amit Shah ever mentioned any casualty figures about the IAF strike at a Jaish-e-Mohammad camp in Pakistan.

Amid questions by opposition leaders about the casualty figures in India’s air strikes in Pakistan, Union minister of state, electronic and IT, S S Ahluwalia said that the strikes were meant to scare and warn and not to take human lives.

“Has Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned the 300 figure (of casualty), or did any spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party say so? Did Amit Shah give any figure even once? The air strikes were designed to demonstrate that we can enter your home, despite your (Pakistan’s) elaborate security arrangements, and can strike at will at terror locations that we have properly identified,” said Ahluwalia, the Darjeeling MP, in Siliguri on Friday.

“We did not want any human casualty,” the minister said in Bengali.

Ahluwalia, who spent his student years in Bengal and studied in Calcutta University, speaks the language fluently.

He was responding to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks on Thursday questioning the number of casualties in the India’s strike in Balakot on February 26.

“We have the right to know how many people were killed in the air strikes launched by India. Is it 300, or 350? I read in the international media that the bombs landed somewhere else. How many actually perished? Or, did anyone die at all?” the Trinamool Congress chief had asked.

Also read: ‘We don’t need war for the sake of politics’: Mamata Banerjee

Following Ahluwalia’s remarks, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) asked on Twitter whether the government was now backtracking from its claims that it took out a terrorist camp in Pakistan.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1101798010340683776

Incidentally, on Saturday, speaking at a public rally in Madhya Pradesh, BJP president Amit Shah criticised Banerjee for her Thursday remarks.

Hours after the air strikes on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said in a briefing, “Credible intelligence was received that JeM was attempting another suicide terror attack in various parts of the country, and the fidayeen jihadis were being trained for this purpose. In the face of imminent danger, a pre-emptive strike became absolutely necessary.”

“India struck the biggest training camp of JeM in Balakot. In this operation, a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for fidayeen action were eliminated. This facility at Balakot was headed by Maulana Yousuf Azhar (alias Ustad Ghouri), the brother-in-law of Masood Azhar , Chief of JeM,” he said.

He did not mention any specific number of casualties.

Reference: https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...r-ahluwalia/story-6xLHQilmYt1L9sTxIDaq1O.html

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Well done Pakistan - you've made your enemy forget why they crossed LOC and international border.

Well. That makes sense......
Postivly very negative

 

[Dr. Abdul Basit]

I am afraid the suicide rate's gonna jump higher in India