Narendra Modi 'failed' to answer questions about Pahalgam, Trump in Lok Sabha: Opposition - 'Typical Nehru Bashing' | Mint

Opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not answering their questions, including those related to Pahalgam’s “intelligence failure” and US President Donald Trump’s “ceasefire” claims, while talking in Thelok Sabha on Tuesday during the operation Sindoor debate. In his speech and reply to the debate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed that no leader of any country had asked India to stop operation Sindoor, still giving “sleepless nights” to the brain of the Pahalgam attack. Modi thus the repeated claims of President Trump to mediate a ‘ceasefire’ after four days of military action during Operation Sindoor in May this year in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. Narendra Modi said he said the Vice President JD Vance on the night of May 9 that Pakistan would pay dearly for any attack on India. Shortly after Modi’s 100 -minute speech in Lok Sabha, President Trump repeated his claim and called India his ‘friend’. “Yes, I think so. India is my friend. They ended the war with Pakistan at my request … The agreement with India was not finalized. India was a good friend, but India has basically charged more rates than India, a high rate, a sky lead, if one has a lead, it is a front. 20-25 percent. Which opposition said? However, opposition leaders said the prime minister did not categorically deny Trump’s claim of the Broker of Peace between India and Pakistan. Congressional Pawan Khera said they did not receive a single answer. “We asked for a discussion because both us and the country wanted answers. We don’t have a single answer,” Khera told PTI videos. “Simple question is how Pahalgam happened, how the terrorists managed to end up in India and attack our civilians, our tourists. No answers,” he said. “Why did the announcement of ceasefire come from America? This is a question for which we do not have an answer,” Khera said. SAMAJWADI PARTY HEAD and LOKING SABHA MP Akhilesh Yadav, in an apparent reference to China, said the Indian government could not see the real threat, although he did not mention the country. In his earlier speech in Lok Sabha, Yadav China’s threat with India’to compared any threat of terrorism. “They can’t see the real threat behind Pakistan. If they can’t see the real threat, even though they’re in government, what can be done …” said former Uttar Pradesh chief minister. Sagarika Ghose, LP of the Trinamol Congress, said the speech was “theater” but did not answer questions. “Typically theater speech by the prime minister. He did not answer the questions of the opposition. First question about the intelligence and safety failure that led to the terror attack in Pahalgam,” Ghose said. “Secondly, why did the diplomatic outreach of India not achieve the desired results? Third, why did President Trump repeatedly take the credit for the India-Pakistan arms and linked it to trade,” she said. ‘Typical Nehru Bashing’ Ghose said the prime minister did not answer these questions. “All we had was typical theater and drama, and typical Nehru bashing,” she said. She also said that Prime Minister Narenda Modi should say in public that President Trump “does not tell the truth”. “The prime minister failed to counteract President Trump,” she said. Congress -LP Gaurav Gogoi said Premier Modi tried to take the entire credit for operation Sindoor. “In his two -hour speech, Prime Minister Modi tried to take the full credit for Operation Sindoor. At the beginning of the speech, he said that the people of the country supported him. He is wrong, people of the country fully supported the government and the Indian army,” he said. Congress -LP KC Venugopal said there was nothing new in what the prime minister said. “What Amit Shah said today is repeated by the prime minister. There was nothing else, ‘he said. (With agency input)