Chief minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar said that an affronting question by a TV anchor led prompted him to plan the surgical strike in 2016.
After the 2015, anti-insurgency operation along the Myanmar border, a television host asked Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, “Would you have the courage and capability of doing the same on the western front?”
“After a successful surgical strike, this was another insult to me, which I listened to very intensely but decided to answer when the time comes,” Parikkar said.
The minister disclosed that the groundwork for the strike on September 29,2016 began exactly on June 9,2015.
Speaking at a gathering of industrialists on Saturday in Goa, Parikkar told that the being defence minister the first insult was when a small terrorist organisation like Socialist Council of Nagaland with around 200people killed army soldiers. It may be noted that, on 4June,2015, NSCN-K ambushed an Indian Army convoy in Chandel district of Manipur and killed 18 Dogra soldiers. The first successful surgical strike was conducted along the India-Myanmar border on 8June,2015 morning in which around 80 terrorists were killed. When the tv anchor asked Rathore an, ex-Army man that “question” Parikkar said that “I listened very intensely but decided to answer when the time came”
He acknowledged that DRDO’s Swathi Weapon Locating Radar was used first in September 2016 to locate forty firing units of Pakistani Army which were destroyed in the strike. He revealed that defence ministry “was in pure shambles” when he took charge in November 2014.
