Congress MLA and former Union minister Manish Tewari on Tuesday taunted his party by revealing an excerpt from his new book, in which he made a controversial remark on the issue of the then Manmohan Singh government’s response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Had it. attacks in 2008, arguing that India There should have been a “dynamic response” against Pakistan. The development gave the Bharatiya Janata Party ammunition to attack the Congress ahead of the state elections due early next year. The controversy comes close on the heels of Tiwari’s party colleague Salman Khurshid in his book indicating major outrage for allegedly comparing Hindutva with terrorist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram.
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Tiwari was promoting ’10 Flash Points’; 20 Years – National Security Situations That Affected India’ Posted on Twitter by Roopa Publications. The book will be officially released on December 2.
Happy to announce that my 4th book will soon hit the market – ’10 Flash Points; 20 Years – Conditions of National Security that Affected India’. This book objectively describes each of the major national security challenges faced by India in the last two decades.@Rupa_Books pic.twitter.com/3N0ef7cUad— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) November 23, 2021
“For a state which has no compulsion to ruthlessly kill hundreds of innocent people, restraint is not a sign of strength; It is considered a symbol of weakness. There comes a time when actions must speak louder than words. 26/11 was a time when it simply should have been done,” he says in the book. “Therefore, it is my view that India should have had a kinetic response in the days after 9/11.”
Manish Tewari is part of the so-called ‘Group of 23 (G-23)’ Congress leaders, who have repeatedly raised concerns about the party’s leadership and its future.
One of the most horrific terrorist attacks in the country’s history took place on November 26, 2008, when 166 people were killed and over 300 were injured as 10 heavily armed terrorists from Pakistan ravaged Mumbai.
The BJP was in a hurry to control the situation.
After Salman Khurshid, another Congress leader threw the UPA under the bus for selling his book. Manish Tewari in his new book criticizes the weakness of UPA in the name of restraint after 26/11.
Air Chief Marshal Fali Major is already saying that IAF is ready for attack but UPA froze. pic.twitter.com/LOlYl77fgD
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) November 23, 2021
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The BJP is trying to corner the Congress in early 2022 ahead of assembly elections in key states such as Uttar Pradesh as well as in Punjab, which shares a border with Pakistan. This recently got an opportunity with the controversy erupted from Khurshid’s book ‘Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Times’, in which he drew parallels between Hindutva and radical Islamic groups. He wrote, “Sanatan Dharma and classical Hinduism known to saints and sages were being pushed aside by a stronger version of Hindutva, a political version similar to the jihadi Islam of groups such as ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years.” “
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