Regarding the Chinese invasion, Manish Tiwari wrote stories that paralleled the 1962 war as “spooky”.
Parliamentary G-23 leader Manish Tewari – who criticized the UPA government’s response to the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai to the satisfaction of the BJP – did not pardon the NDA government in the book. his new. He writes in his book “10 Flashes; 20 Years – National Security Situations Affecting India” institutionally “helpful at best and non-existent at worst”.
To make his point, Mr. Tewari looked at the government’s response to recent challenges, from surgical attacks to Chinese invasions.
Manish Tewari writes about the surgical strikes that took place in September 2016 after attacks in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri, which left 19 soldiers dead.
“Accordingly, marketing such action by the government to the domestic public has unfortunately gained top priority. Whereas before, the approach was to act stealthily and impose a cost to send a clear message to the adversary, this pattern was overturned with attacks after Uri,” he added.
Congress has repeatedly stated that the NDA went public with the strike for political gain. The party disputes six previous strikes during the rule of the National Assembly and two in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which have not been made public.
The BJP has stated that action against terrorist launchers in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir was first taken by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
During the strike in Balakot in February 2019 – a retaliation for the terrorist attacks in Jammu and Pulwama of Kashmir – Mr Tewari wrote that there was no mechanism to de-escalation, pointing to the inherent risks in such a situation.
“What Pulwama-Balakot has demonstrated is that there isn’t any infrastructure that can be accessed to alleviate the situation,” he wrote.
Talking about China’s invasion of Indian territory last year, Mr. Tewari wrote that the parallel development of the Sino-Indian border war in 1962, even after a gap of 58 years, was “spooky”.
China’s incursions in the summer of 2020 “put the BJP-led government to sleep,” Tewari wrote.
“What makes it worse is that this is a repeat of what happened exactly 20 years ago when India faced a similar situation in the form of Kargil incursions in the high Himalayas, how where the current confrontation with China is taking place is about 500 km. go out”.
Congress has repeatedly questioned the government whether the incursions would leave China with more Indian territory under its control.
Mr Tewari also questioned the government’s move to create a Defense Chief of Staff, integrate the three wings of the armed forces and streamline the arms procurement process.
” Does organizing the CDS as a sole military adviser to the government detract from the diversity of views available to the government? Can CDS really promote greater alignment and more operational integration of services? ”, he writes in his new book.
Mr Tewari’s criticism of the UPA government’s response to the November 26 strikes created a huge controversy, much to his party’s annoyance.
One of 23 leaders who signed the explosive letter to Sonia Gandhi last year, marking disparities in leadership and demanding sweeping organizational change, Manish Tewari wrote that “restraint is no sign of strength; it is seen as a symbol of weakness… In my view, I have considered that India should make a kinetic response in the days following India’s 9/11” .
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