Former Air Chief says Greater Nicobar project important for ‘military footprint’

The Greater Nicobar task is “important for India’s subject footprint” successful the area, a erstwhile main of the Indian Air Force said connected Thursday (April 30, 2026), arsenic portion of the BJP’s pushback against Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s comments against the task and its harmful ecological footprint.

Air Chief Marshal (Retd) R.K.S. Bhadauria, who is present a subordinate of the BJP, pointed to the strategical value of having a larboard adjacent the way of China’s vigor shipments, with the struggle successful West Asia demonstrating the interaction of specified maritime leverage.