Congress Claims Six Surgical Strikes In UPA Era; BJP Hits Back With RTI Reply

A heated political debate has opened up after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s feedback on India’s surgical moves sparked controversy. Tharoor, main a multi-party delegation to a number of international locations, said that India crossed the Line of Control for the primary time in 2016 to behavior surgical moves towards terrorist bases. The Congress celebration temporarily distanced itself from Tharoor’s remarks and claimed that six such army operations have been performed all over the UPA govt.

The grand outdated celebration shared a video on X and stated, “No Noise. No PR. Only Decisive Actions. 6 Surgical Strikes were carried out under Congress Govt.”

 

No Noise. No PR. Only Decisive Actions 

6 Surgical Strikes Were Carried Out Under Congress Govt. pic.twitter.com/IBZxrA0pSc
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 29, 2025

Congress additionally shared an image noting the dates of its six surgical moves.

आपकी जानकारी के लिए  pic.twitter.com/YePrHkAWGK
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 29, 2025

BJP’s Amit Malviya shared an RTI remark on X, pointing out that the given segment does now not grasp any knowledge bearing on surgical moves performed ahead of September 29, 2016.  

RTI Reply | April 9, 2018

“This section (Integrated HQ of MoD ARMY DGMO) does NOT hold any data pertaining to SURGICAL STRIKES carried out BEFORE 29 Sept 2016.”

Let that sink in. No information. No knowledge. No evidence of any “surgical strikes” ahead of 2016. pic.twitter.com/kvX0uM182S
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 29, 2025

Meanwhile, Tharoor, who’s main an all-party delegation in a world outreach programme, in Panama stated, “When, for the first time, India breached the Line of Control between India and Pakistan to conduct a surgical strike on a terror base, a launch pad – the Uri strike in September 2015. That was already something we had not done before. Even during the Kargil War, we had not crossed the Line of Control.”