Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday, took to micro-blogging website X and shared a video of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar speaking to the media claiming to have informed Pakistan military about Operation Sindoor in advance and questioned how many aircraft the Indian Air Force lost.
"Informing Pakistan at the start of our attack was a crime. EAM has publicly admitted that GOI did it. Who authorised it? How many aircraft did our air force lose as a result?" Gandhi's caption read.
In the video Jaishankar can be heard saying, "At the start of the operation, we had sent a message to Pakistan, saying, 'We are striking at terrorist infrastructure and we are not striking at the military.'" "So the military has the option of standing out and not interfering in this process. They chose not to take that good advice."
However, when the same video was posted by Kerala Congress' official handle, it was fact checked by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) "Social media posts quoting EAM @DrSJaishankar are implying that India gave advance information to Pakistan about #OperationSindoor, #PIBFactCheck EAM is being misquoted, and he has not made this statement."
News agency ANI had quoted Jaishankar saying, "We achieved the goals which we set out to do by destroying the terrorist infrastructure. Since key goals were achieved, I think we reasonably took the position, because even at the start of the operation, we had sent a message to Pakistan saying we are striking at terrorist infrastructure and not military and the military has an option to stand out and not interfere. They chose not to take that good advice. Once they got badly hit on the morning of 10th May. The satellite pictures show how much damage we did and what little damage they did. It is clear who wanted cessation of firing."
BJP Reacts
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari has reacted to the video shared by Rahul Gandhi."Stop spreading Fake News Rahul Gandhi !" he said.
