'Yes my father had dropped bombs...', Sachin Pilot's reply to Amit Malviya

Pilot vs Malviya: The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are at loggerheads over Manipur and other northeastern states. Recently, a no-confidence motion was brought in the Parliament on the issue of Manipur by the opposition, meanwhile, a war of words has started between Congress leader Sachin Pilot and BJP leader Amit Malviya on social media. Amit Malviya had alleged that Sachin Pilot's father was also involved in the bombing that took place in Mizoram. Now the Congress leader has given him a befitting reply.

Actually, Amit Malviya made a tweet on 13 August. Amit Malviya claimed that on March 5, 1966, Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram, was bombed on the orders of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Rajesh Pilot and Suresh Kalmadi were flying the Air Force planes from which the bombs were thrown. Later both became MPs on Congress ticket and then ministers. The BJP leader alleged that those who bombed their own people in the North East were given respect in politics.

.@amitmalviya - You have the wrong dates, wrong facts…
Yes, as an Indian Air Force pilot, my late father did drop bombs. But that was on erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war and not as you claim, on Mizoram on the 5th of March 1966.
He was commissioned into the… https://t.co/JfexDbczfk pic.twitter.com/Lpe1GL1NLB

— Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) August 15, 2023

'Yes my father dropped the bombs...'

Sachin Pilot gave a befitting reply to this claim of Amit Malviya. Showing the paper, Sachin Pilot wrote on Twitter that his father Rajesh Pilot was commissioned in the Air Force on October 29, 1966, so the claim of the bombing on March 5, 1966 is completely baseless. Sachin Pilot said that his father had played an important role in getting a ceasefire and a peace treaty in Mizoram in the 80s.

Sachin Pilot also claimed that as an Air Force pilot my father had dropped bombs, but he was in East Pakistan when the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 took place, that is, your claim about Mizoram is completely wrong. Is.

Actually, this issue of Mizoram has arisen after the speech given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the no-confidence motion. In his address, PM Modi had accused the Congress that in Mizoram, the Congress had got its own citizens attacked by the Air Force, were the people of Mizoram not the citizens of our country. Even today, March 5 is observed as Mourning Day in Mizoram. Responding to Manipur, PM Modi made this attack, since then there is a tussle between BJP and Congress.