Rajyavardhan asks Kapil Sibal to go to Balakot to check body count

 SMTV Desk 2019-03-05 14:08:01  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore,Kapil Sibal, Balakot
Rajyavardhan asks Kapil Sibal to go to Balakot to check body count

New Delhi, March 5: Hitting out at Congress leader Kapil Sibal for his remarks on the February 26 IAF strike, Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Monday asked him, Kapil Sibal, to go to Balakot in Pakistan to check the casualties after the latter cited foreign media reports on "no losses" in the operation.


Amid the war of words between BJP and Congress on the air raid, Rathore tweeted, "You believe international media over own Intelligence agencies? You seem happy when media quoted by you says no losses in strike?...and sir, for us you went to London to find evidence against EVMs, will you please also go to Balakot to check?"


He was quoting a tweet of Sibal in which the Congress leader had accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of politicising terror.


Sibal had tweeted, "Modiji, Is international media - New York Times, London based Jane's Information Group, Washington Post, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Reuters, reporting no proof of militant losses at Balakot pro-Pakistan? You are guilty of politicising terror?"


Locking horns after Indian Air Force Chief BS Dhanoa's remarks on Monday on the air strike, BJP had charged Congress with politicising the issue while the Opposition party sought the source of statements being made by BJP leaders with regards to the number of casualties at the Jaish-e-Mohammed camp in Balakot.


Addressing the media, Dhanoa had said fighter pilots had hit the target given to them, adding that he could not give the number of casualties suffered as it is for the government to clarify.


Earlier on Sunday, BJP chief Amit Shah, while addressing a rally in Ahmedabad, had claimed that 250 terrorists were killed in the air strike.