Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar said on Friday an “insulting” question by a television anchor to Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore after the 2015 anti- insurgency operation along the Myanmar border prompted him to plan last year’s ‘surgical strikes’ in PoK. (Union minister) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, an ex-Armyman, was on TV and he was explaining about all kinds of search operations. An anchor asked him ‘would you have the courage and capability of doing the same on the western front’,” Parrikar recalled. The starting of September 29 (2016) surgical strike on the western border was 9th of June, 2015....We planned 15 months in advance. Parrikar however not reveal the identity of the anchor or mention when the journalist asked Rathore the question.

Source: Hindustan Times July 01, 2017 05:11 UTC