New Delhi: Congress MP Manish Tewari questioned India’s response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and said the country should have taken a “kinetic response” against Pakistan in the days following the attacks.
Tiwari’s opinion in his newly launched book ’10 Flash Points; ’20 Years’ – National Security Situations That Affected India’ which looks at India’s national security challenge over the past two decades.
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
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“26/11 was a time when it should have been done. Therefore, it is my view that India should have had a dynamic response in the days following India’s 9/11,” says an excerpt from his book which has been published by Roopa Books. The Congress leader on his Twitter page Shared part.
He has also spoken about the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and wrote that ‘the challenges to India’s national security have increased in both complexity and intensity over the past two decades.’
But the opposition has seen Tiwari’s revelations as yet another glimpse of the failures of the UPA. BJP leader Amit Malviya tweeted in response to Tiwari and said, ‘After Salman Khurshid another Congress leader threw UPA under a bus for selling his book. Manish Tewari in his new book criticizes the weakness of UPA in the name of banning post 26/11. Air Chief Marshal Fali Major is already saying that IAF is ready for attack but UPA froze.
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
He further slammed the Congress saying “their dirty thinking on national security”, “… (it) declared India a weak state”.
“Just yesterday, Mani Shankar Aiyar raised questions on defense spending… Today Manish Tewari expressed regret over the weak response of UPA to 26/11. PC (P Chidambaram) as HM (Union Home Minister) for Naxalites Wanted to launch an offensive against… Digvijay Singh (former Madhya Pradesh CM) protested,” Malviya wrote in a second tweet.
Exactly the same day, Mani Shankar Aiyar questioned defense spending, today Manish Tewari lamented UPA’s weak response to 26/11. PC as HM wanted to launch offensive against Naxalites, Digvijay Singh protested.
This confused thinking on national security made India a weak state under the Congress. https://t.co/icYMESmdEL
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) November 23, 2021
More than 160 people were killed in the 26/11 attacks as terrorists created a stampede across Mumbai. Nine terrorists were killed and the only surviving attacker – Ajmal Kasab – was arrested and executed on November 11, 2012. This horrific attack took place when the Congress-led UPA was in power. Between 2012 and 2014, Tiwari was the Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the second UPA government.
This week will be the 13th anniversary of those gruesome attacks.
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