Congress MP Channi demands 'surgical strike proof', gets 'visit Pak and check' reply
PTC News Desk: Congress has received backlash from ruling government BJP after MP Charanjit Singh Channi sought proof of the surgical strike carried out against Pakistan in 2016. Channi later said he had not sought proof and that the Congress stands with the government "like a rock" as it takes measures against Pakistan following last week's attack.
Addressing a press conference on Friday after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in which a strong resolution urging the Centre to penalise Pakistan for the Pahalgam attack was passed, Channi said the surgical strike "could not be seen".
"If a bomb is dropped on our country, would we not know? They say we had conducted a surgical strike in Pakistan... nothing happened, the surgical strikes could not be seen, nobody found out," MP Channi said.
Asked if he was seeking proof of the strike, Channi said, "I have been demanding it since the beginning. But the need of the hour is to heal the wounds of the people of our country. We demand that (the Centre) do something, identify (those behind the Pahalgam attack) and punish them."
Congress MP's remarks prompted strong backlash from the BJP and accused him of questioning the armed forces.
Party leader and Delhi Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said, "The Congress has questioned the Army and the Air Force again. Charanjit Singh Channi has said again that he does not believe that the surgical strike was carried out and that he wants proof. What kind of mindset does the Congress and the Gandhi family have that they repeatedly accuse the Army and Air Force of lying and say that Pakistan is telling the truth? This is despite Pakistan itself saying the surgical strike was carried out."
- PTC NEWS
