Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Operation Sindoor and lashed out at the Congress. In his speech, the PM mentioned the interview of ABP News in which former Home Minister P Chidambaram had given a big statement regarding the Mumbai terrorist attack. He had said that at that time America had stopped us from retaliating.
PM Modi mentioned the interview of ABP News
PM Modi said, “Recently, a big leader of the Congress, who has been the Home Minister of the country during the Congress rule, has made a big revelation in an interview that after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, our forces were ready to attack Pakistan. The whole country also wanted the same, but under pressure from another country, the Congress government stopped the country’s forces from attacking Pakistan. Congress will have to tell who was the one who took the decision under foreign pressure and played with the sentiments of Mumbai and the country. Did.”
Congress had knelt down after Mumbai attacks: PM Modi
PM Modi said, “Mumbai is the financial capital of India as well as one of the most vibrant cities of India. That is why in 2008, terrorists chose Mumbai city for a major attack, but the Congress government that was in power at that time gave a message of weakness and surrendered before terrorism.”
Referring to Operation Sindoor, PM Modi said, “For us, there is nothing more important than the security of the country and its countrymen. Today’s India gives a strong reply, enters the house and kills. The world has seen this during Operation Sindoor.”
What did P Chidambaram say?
Congress leader P Chidambaram was the Union Home Minister at the time of the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008. Regarding India’s reaction after this attack, he said, “The then US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had come to India to meet him and the Prime Minister and requested them not to react to the situation.”