A day after a senior official denied “intelligence failure” within the Chhattisgarh anti-naxal operation, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the operation in opposition to Maoists, by which 22 safety personnel have been killed, was “poorly designed and incompetently executed”.
“If there was no intelligence failure then a 1:1 death ratio means it was a poorly designed and incompetently executed operation. Our Jawans are not cannon fodder to be martyred at will,” the Congress chief Tweeted.
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If there was no intelligence failure then a 1:1 demise ratio means it was a poorly designed and incompetently executed operation.
Our Jawans will not be cannon fodder to be martyred at will. pic.twitter.com/JDgVc03QvD
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 5, 2021
Along the remarks, Gandhi tagged a information clipping of CRPF DG Kuldiep Singh’s declare that “there was no intelligence or operational failure in the operation in Chhattisgarh” the place 22 safety personnel have been killed by the Maoists on Saturday within the state’s Bastar area.
In a following tweet, Gandhi raised doubts concerning the safety supplied to the personnel who participated within the encounter. “No India jawan ought to face any enemy with out physique armour within the twenty first century,” he said.
No Indian jawan should face an enemy without body armour in the 21st century.
It needs to be made available to every soldier.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 5, 2021
Earlier, news agency ANI has quoted Singh saying that “Had it been some intelligence failure, forces would haven’t gone for the operation. And if there was some operational failure, so many Naxals would haven’t been killed.”
An encounter broke out between security forces and Naxals along the Sukma-Bijapur border in Chhattisgarh on Saturday after a party of jawans was ambushed by Maoists near Jonnaguda village around noon. The intense face-off led to the sacrifice of 22 soldiers, leaving 32 others injured, with 1 jawan missing.
