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Prime Minister's silence on Trump's involvement in ceasefire raises questions: Bhupesh Baghel

Prime Minister's silence on Trump's involvement in ceasefire raises questions: Bhupesh Baghel

Time of India5 days ago
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister
Bhupesh Baghel
on Monday said that the
Prime Minister's silence
on the involvement of President Trump in the
ceasefire announcement
raises questions.
Bhupesh Baghel said, "... The whole country stood together when the
Pahalgam terror attack
happened and also during
Operation Sindoor
. All the opposition parties supported the government. But the situation that arose after the ceasefire was announced, and the involvement of President Trump in the entire episode, raised a lot of questions. It was insulting. Our Prime Minister's silence also raises questions..."
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United States President Donald Trump on Friday once again claimed to have mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and said that five jets were shot down during Operation Sindoor, which was India's response to the Pahalgam terror attack in April.
Trump said, "We stopped a lot of wars. And these were serious, India and Pakistan, that was going on. Planes were being shot out of there. I think five jets were shot down, actually. These are two serious nuclear countries, and they were hitting each other.
Congress
MP Manish Tewari on Sunday questioned the credibility of Donald Trump's "five jets shot down" statement, saying that the US President should provide an empirical basis to substantiate the information and specify whether the planes were Indian or Pakistani.
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Manish Tewari said that it was up to the US President to provide proof of the claims he had made. "President Trump says that five military jets were shot down during that conflict; it is for President Trump to tell the world as to which country those jets belong to".
"We were in a conflict situation with Pakistan. We were responding to a terror attack. India carried out precision strikes on designated terror hideouts and training centers. Therefore, we acted in self-defence," Tewari said.
Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Sunday said that US President Trump's statement about the five fighter jets being shot down is disturbing and added, "It has been decided to raise issues, the most important being the Pahalgam attack. To date, the traces of terrorists have not been found. Regarding Operation Sindoor,
US President Donald Trump
stated for the 24th time that he secured the ceasefire. A shocking statement was made that five fighter jets were shot down. The defence attache also said the same. CDS too said the same. This disturbs us."
The Monsoon session of Parliament begins today and will continue until August 21.
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