After 26/11, Manish Tiwari Shreds Centre's Security Policy In New Book
NDTV
India's institutional learnings on national security challenges "are at best tenuous and at worst, non-existent", Manish Tewari wrote in his book "10 Flash Points; 20 Years - National Security Situations that Impacted India".
Congress's G-23 leader Manish Tewari -- whose criticism of the UPA government's reaction to the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai had so pleased the BJP -- has not spared the NDA government in his new book. Overall, India's institutional learnings on national security challenges "are at best tenuous and at worst, non-existent", he wrote in his book "10 Flash Points; 20 Years - National Security Situations that Impacted India".
To make his point, Mr Tewari has gone over the government's reaction to recent challenges, from surgical strikes to Chinese incursions.
"The NDA seems to have made the unfortunate assessment that these strikes pay political dividends," Manish Tewari wrote about the surgical strikes, which took place in September 2016 after the attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri, in which 19 soldiers were killed.
"Accordingly, the marketing of such government action to domestic public opinion has regrettably attained paramount priority. While earlier, the approach was to act with stealth and impose a cost that sends a clear message to the adversary, this model has been turned on its head with the post-Uri strikes," he added.
