Operation Sindoor: Credit for military response should go to Indian armed forces and not to any political party, Karnataka CM Siddarmaiah

On the comparison between the 1971 war with Pakistan under the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the present war between the two countries, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah said more than 54 years had passed since the earlier war, and the circumstances are different.

MYSURU

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the credit for India’s strong military response to Pakistan should go to the armed forces, and not to any political party.

Speaking to reporters at the helipad on his arrival in H. D. Kote near Mysuru on May 12, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the country’s defence forces deserve credit for waging a war against Pakistan. “No political party can claim credit for the same,” he said when reporters drew his attention to the efforts reportedly being made by the BJP to take credit for the war against Pakistan.

Though the Chief Minister welcomed the ceasefire between the two countries, he said the Centre should have convened an all-party meeting and a special session of Parliament before taking a decision on the ceasefire, as it was a ‘serious matter’.

To a question, he said all Pakistani citizens in Karnataka have left the State, except three children, who are aged below 6 years.

The trio’s father is a Pakistani national while the mother is an Indian. Though the children were taken to the border to be sent to Pakistan, nobody was there to take them.

He said he would await the developments at a meeting between the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of both the countries that had been scheduled for May 12.