Senior Uttar Pradesh minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has said that he is not in favour of releasing the video of surgical strikes carried out by Indian Army against terror launch pads based out of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Azam Khan pointed out that similar surgical strikes were carried out in the past as well but the video was never released.
“I don’t think making surgical strike video public is a wise idea. Surgical strikes were conducted in the past as well but then also no videos were made public. We don’t do publicity of such attacks,” Azam Khan said.
On Wednesday, Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Ahir had said that the Army has handed over video clips of the surgical strikes to the government as per the laid down procedure.
“The laid down procedure has been followed. The DGMO briefed about the surgical strikes. It was not the Defence Minister nor the Prime Minister and not the Home Minister. It was the DGMO, who briefed the media,” he said.
“There was a time when written documents were submitted. Now, the times have changed. Now, the clips are given and the clips have been given,” he added.
A majority of defence experts have voiced their opinion against making the surgical strike video public saying that it would have a negative impact on future operations.
However, a political slugfest over surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC broke out on Tuesday with Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam calling it “fake” and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asking the government to release the proof of the surgical strikes to counter the Pakistani propaganda against the operation.
The ruling BJP, however, blasted the opposition for seeking the proof of the surgical strikes and said that everybody should have faith in the Indian Army.
