On surgical strikes, BJP asks Kejriwal: "why are you swayed by Pak propaganda?"

Kejriwal's demand

Kejriwal had saluted Modi for the strikes, and urged him to counter propaganda by Pakistan - which claims the strikes never took place - by releasing video footage of the strikes. This was highlighted by the Pakistani media on Monday.

A senior BJP leader wondered whether after Punjab, Kejriwal was looking to contest seats in Pakistan, because of how he was helping its propaganda.

Chidambaram's statement

A day after Kejriwal released his public address to the Prime Minister, former Union Finance and Home Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram also raised questions about the strikes.

He said the much-hyped strikes were not the only time that the Indian Army had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) to take punitive action, and that a similar major strike took place in January 2013, when the UPA was in power.

But the UPA government, in which he was a minister, did not go public with the details, he said, for strategic reasons. At the same time, he also urged the PM to give more details about the strike.

Other senior Congress leaders have also attacked BJP over the strikes. Digvijaya Singh has called Modi and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval 'war mongers', while Shashi Tharoor has asked the government to provide coordinates of the places where the surgical strikes were carried out.

In his conference, Prasad asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to inform the party and the public whether Chidambaram's statement reflected the views of the party, "based on which we will give an appropriate response".

Edited by Shreyas Sharma

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