Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi is supposed to have knowledge of the sensitivities associated with national security, and especially when India is still in no-peace with its long time adversary Pakistan after four-day-long intense war that threatened to escalate to something big.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that “Operation Sindoor”, launched on May7 to avenge the barbaric massacre in Pahalgam on April 22, is not over as yet. Pakistan has suffered huge losses – more than 100 terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba killed and all its airbases, including Nur Khan damaged beyond repair. It is still nursing its wounds. It is faking its victory in defeat.
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In such times, Prime Minister Modi’s word is final. There can be no challenge to what he is saying. He is face of the whole of the country and all the Indians have rallied behind him. There is a twin-challenge situation: India is facing the cross-border terrorism from Pakistan , despite hard hutting Indian strikes at its terror infrastructure , Islamabad continues to support terrorism , and secondly , India is busy in telling the world how Pakistan sponsored terrorism is a generational threat.
Rahul Gandhi should have rallied behind the PM, not just by words, but also by his actions. War is an opportunity to demonstrate that all parties, cutting across their party lines and political ideologies, stand behind the government of the day.
He should know that it is not time for nit picking or raising questions that may be used by the adversary to further its propaganda. At this point in time – frustrated Pakistan reeling from its worst-ever defeat- is using all sorts of tools to defame India. And, the fact remains that some of the questions that Rahul Gandhi has raised were helping Pakistan to add substance to its otherwise senseless claims of illusory success in war with India.
The LoP’s questions can wait for a while. All what he wants to know will be told by the Government in the days to come? At this moment, the situation is still evolving, and there is no certainty what Pakistan would do next. It was thought that Pakistan has learnt lessons after its terror camps were hit in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after the Pulwama terror attack of February 2019, but, it still carried out carnage in Pahalgam in April 2025.
Rahul Gandhi, just do some introspection and then you will find that your questions are invalid and untimely. The repeated question that how many aircraft India lost in the four-day is not in the national interest. The enemy is revelling in deliberate manipulation of war-time claims, which are nothing but imaginary tales, to mislead its domestic audience and put up a brave face before the world. Though the world knows that what all Pakistan has suffered from, but Pakistan is still busy with its game of misinformation. Rahul Gandhi’s questions on the aircraft loss and foreign policy, are being used by Pakistan to consolidate its disinformation campaign.
It is understandable that Rahul Gandhi, as leader of the main opposition party, would like to criticise the government of the day. But this is not the time. There seems to be head-long rush to score brownie points. You are not being loved for the questions you asked of government. Because, to the Indians it appears that doubts are being cast on the successes of the armed forces.
In India, no one appreciates that Rahul Gandhi should be wise enough to know this reality of the day.
