Adding fuel to the continued political fire between the government and Opposition parties over the outcome of India’s Operation Sindoor precision strikes against Pakistani terror infrastructure, Karnataka Congress MLA Kothur Manjunath has raised doubts over the military action, saying it did not serve any purpose and failed to deliver justice to the Pahalgam attack victims’ families.
“Nothing was done. Just to show off, they sent three-four flights overhead and returned. Will that compensate for the 26–28 people killed in Pahalgam? Is this how we compensate those women? Is this how we console them? Is this how we show respect?,” Manjunath questioned.
After the May 7 precision strikes carried out by the Indian Armed forces, the government said in an official statement that nine major terror launch pads were destroyed and around 100 terrorists were killed, a claim contended by some opposition parties, including the Congress.
Manjunath went ahead and questioned if the perpetrators of the April 22 attack in the Baisaran Valley were among those killed in Indian strikes.
“Have they confirmed that at least 100 terrorists have been killed? Who were those terrorists who crossed our border? What are their identities? Why was there no security at the border? How did they escape? We should identify the root, branches, and stems of terrorism and eliminate them,” he added, saying it was a complete intelligence failure.
Manjunath also claimed that there are inconsistent claims with regard to the number of terrorists killed, and Pakistani terror factories destroyed.
“We hit them here, we hit them there? All the TV channels are telling different stories. One says they hit them like this, another says something else. Whom do we trust? Who was hit? Who died? Where is the official statement?,” the Congress MLA questioned.
India has consistently maintained that only terrorists were killed in Operation Sindoor strikes and Pakistani military installations were targeted in the following retaliation to the Pakistani drone attacks, saying that no civilians were killed in the military action.
“We oppose any kind of war against civilians, anywhere, whether in Karnataka, Pakistan, China, or Bangladesh. Do you know how they killed the husbands of those women right in front of their eyes? This cannot compensate them. This is not the solution,” Manjunath contended.
India’s military action against the terrorist network in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) came in response to the Pahalgam attack, in which 25 Indian and one Nepali nationals were killed by the terrorists of The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba.
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