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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) deed retired astatine former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Congress person Prithviraj Chavan for allegedly saying that India “lost connected the precise archetypal day” of Operation Sindoor. It accused the Congress of “playing into the hands of overseas powers and indulging successful anti-national acts”.
Speaking to the media, BJP MP and spokesperson Sambit Patra said Mr. Chavan is simply a salient look of the Congress and is considered adjacent to the Gandhi family, peculiarly Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra. “On Wednesday, helium said erstwhile Operation Sindoor took place, we mislaid connected the precise archetypal day, which means, India was defeated,” helium said.
Mr. Patra said the Congress person claimed that the Air Force was grounded connected the archetypal time of the cognition and that Indian combatant jets were changeable down. “This is simply a treasonous statement, and contiguous helium has adjacent refused to apologise for it,” helium said.
Highlighting India’s subject actions, helium said the cognition was carried retired heavy wrong Pakistan, astir 100 km into Bahawalpur, a spot wherever Indian forces had ne'er reached before, and delivered a decisive blow. “The full satellite witnessed that implicit 11 airfields were destroyed,” helium said.
Terming Mr. Chavan’s remarks “objectionable” and “anti-national”, the BJP person alleged that the Congress person had said India should not support an Army of 1.2 cardinal soldiers and that the unit should beryllium utilized for different purposes. “He adjacent said that the Army is of nary importance,” Mr. Patra said.
He alleged that the Congress appeared to beryllium lasting with Mr. Chavan’s comments and said that the Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha Mr. Gandhi besides seemed to beryllium supporting him. He accused the Congress of attempting to humiliate India and the Army connected planetary platforms nether pressure.
“Attacking the spot of the Indian Army and portraying India arsenic a defeated federation is simply a nonstop onslaught connected the morale of the full nation,” Mr. Patra said, alleging that the Congress was “playing into the hands of overseas powers”. He demanded an apology from the Congress leadership.
The BJP person slammed Mr. Gandhi’s remarks successful Germany implicit India’s manufacturing capacity. “Parliament is presently successful league successful India, respective important Bills are being discussed successful the House, but Rahul Gandhi is successful Germany addressing the Indian diaspora,” helium said.
“Today, Rahul Gandhi visited the BMW mill successful Munich. There, portion discussing production, helium praised the strategy and besides expressed his regret that India’s accumulation is not good. His repeated visits overseas and statements from overseas ungraded that insult India... determination bespeak the sentiments that helium and the Congress enactment harbour towards India,” Mr. Patra said.
Pointing retired that the Index of Industrial Production of India is presently connected a affirmative maturation trend, helium said successful July 2025, India’s manufacturing assemblage recorded a maturation complaint of 5.4%, and successful September 2025 it was 4.8%. “Currently, India’s GDP maturation complaint is 8.2%, which is 1 of the champion successful the world. About 17% of this publication comes from the manufacturing sector. Whether it is the PLI strategy oregon different schemes, accumulation successful the state is continuously expanding done each of them,” helium said.
