Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi replied to former PM Manmohan Singh's claim that surgical strike was carried under UPA regime, saying that as far as Modi knows, the UPA government did not launch any surgical strikes.
Narendra Modi said that the Army chief in-charge at the time has no information on such strikes. Modi asked, "What kind of surgical strike was it? Who issued the orders? Where are the orders? These are the questions the UPA should be asked to answer. I can only say that we have not found any records of this."
The Narendra Modi-led government launched a counterstrike against terror in 2016 across the Line of Control after the Uri terror attack and the other strike was launched by the government on February 2019 after a suicide bomb attack at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir where more than 40 CRPF jawans have been martyred.
The BJP has made national security as a central agenda of its campaign in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. Modi stated that for a decade or so, the Indian government had tied its own hands as far as Pakistan-backed terror was concerned. "Pakistan kept mounting attacks and there was no cost imposed upon the perpetrators which gave terrorists and their sponsors a kind of impunity that we can do anything and get away. We have sent the message through the surgical strikes that there will now be significant costs to sponsoring terror," Modi said.
While talking about listing of Jaish-e-Mohammad's chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the United Nations, Modi said that everyone was wrongly describing this as a China-related issue when in reality, it is about global terror.
Modi further stated that he is confident about coming back to the office saying that the election is based on performance, not perception.
The PM later said that the 2019 elections are special because this is the first time those born in the 21st century are voting and are not burdened by the past but are in pursuit of a better future.
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