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Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2019-05-02): In an exclusive interview to Hindustan Times , Singh said "multiple surgical strikes" were done during the tenure of the United Progressive Alliance government which he headed but alleged that never before had an Indian government needed to ride on the achievements of the army as it is doing now. [...] His claim of previous surgical strikes echoes one made by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who in an Udaipur rally before the Rajastan Assembly election in 2018 had said that the Army had conducted three surgical strikes while the UPA was in power but had kept those operations a secret. [...] ‘Many surgical strikes during UPA’s tenure’, says former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2019-05-02): ‘Many surgical strikes during UPA’s tenure’, says former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "Multiple surgical strikes took place during our tenure, too. For us, military operations were meant for strategic deterrence and giving a befitting reply to anti-India forces than to be used for vote garnering exercises," Singh, 86, said in an interview with Sunetra Choudhury of Hindustan Times Indian armed forces received a free hand to respond to external threats during the term of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) as well and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempt to gain electoral mileage from military operations are "shameful and unacceptable," says former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Multiple surgical strikes took place during our tenure, too. For us, military operations were meant for strategic deterrence and giving a befitting reply to anti-India forces than to be used for vote garnering exercises," Singh, 86, said in an interview with Sunetra Choudhury of Hindustan Times. [...] Let me remind you that our armed forces were always given a free hand to operationally respond to every threat. Multiple surgical strikes took place during our tenure too. For us, military operations were meant for strategic deterrence and giving a befitting reply to anti-India forces than to be used for vote garnering exercises. In the past 70 years, a government in power never had to hide behind the valour of our armed forces. Such attempts to politicize our forces are shameful and unacceptable.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2017-11-27): New Delhi: In a shocking disclosure, Air Chief Marshal (Retd) Fali Homi Major has revealed that the Indian Air Force was ready to take revenge for the devastating 2008 Mumbai terror attacks but the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government 'blocked' any further action on the surgical strike option that was meant to teach terror-sponsor Pakistan a lesson. [...] UPA 'spared' Saeed: We were prepared for surgical strike but didn't receive go ahead, says ex-IAF vice marshal [...] The revelation tears apart the Congress' claims that the UPA has also conducted surgical strike during its tenure but never publicised it to gain the electoral advantage, 'unlike PM Narendra Modi'.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2019-05-02): Hours after the publication of an interview of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a national daily on Thursday, 2 May, Congress, in a press conference, claimed that six surgical strikes were conducted under the UPA government, adding, that the party never politicised the army related matter. [...] "Since questions are being raised, therefore, we will just say it now. BJP has alleged that before the current government, no surgical strikes have happened. Under Manmohan Singh government, six surgical strikes happened but we never bragged about it."Rajeev Shukla Providing a sequence of the surgical strikes during UPA tenure, Shukla said that on 19 June 2008, a military operation was carried in the Bhattal Sector in Poonch, while another was carried on 1 September 2011 in Sharda Sector across the Neelam River Valley in Kel (Pakistan-administered Kashmir).
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2017-09-20): The following is an excerpt from Nitin A. Gokhale’s new book, Securing India the Modi Way: Pathankot, Surgical Strikes and More. It is published here with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing India. [...] The success of Myanmar operations had planted the seed of thought about a surgical strike in Pakistan in everyone’s mind. Once during his visit to the Northern Command, then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar too had exhorted top commanders to be prepared for every eventuality. "Although I didn’t spell it out explicitly, I knew some day a grave provocation by Pakistan may require a Myanmar-like operation. So I told the Army Chief and his senior commanders to look at every possible response," Parrikar recalls. On his part, Lt Gen Hooda called the two COs (Col H and Col K) and told them that they needed to start looking at targets across the LoC, although frankly at that point in time (June 2015) neither Gen Dalbir, nor Lt Gen Hooda or the political leadership would have thought of such an eventuality arising. Till then, the thinking at the highest levels of India’s political and military leadership was any major trans-LoC strike would be deemed escalatory. Remember, in Kargil, the Vajpayee government had imposed the strict restriction of NOT crossing the LoC in spite of a grave provocation. [...] There was no looking back now.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2016-10-18): Army vice chief contradicts Parrikar, says ops like surgical strikes took place in past [...] Parliament's Standing Committee on External Affairs was today informed that surgical strikes-like military operations had taken place in the past too but were never made public, informed sources said. [...] The opposition Congress has maintained that surgical strikes were conducted thrice during the party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2016-10-06): I have little doubt in my mind that we did indeed undertake a series of surgical strikes during the early hours of 29 September. I have no doubt, however, that this is not the first surgical strike we have undertaken. At least since 2008 - and possibly earlier - the military have been left to take such action as they deem appropriate along the Line of Control or LoC. Repeatedly, therefore, almost year after year, the Indian army have resorted to such strikes. The Congress spokesman has furnished the dates.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2018-12-02): UPA did 3 surgical strikes but didn’t show off: Rahul Gandhi [...] Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that the Indian Army had conducted three surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was in power, but those operations were kept under the wraps at the force’s behest. [...] "Do you know that like Narendra Modi’s surgical strike, (former PM) Manmohan Singh did that three times? When the army came to Manmohan Singh and said we need to retaliate against Pakistan for what they’ve done, they also said we want it to be secret, for our own purposes," Gandhi said.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2018-12-02): Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Modi of using Army’s surgical strikes for political gains. Gandhi accused the PM of shaping the Army’s 2016 surgical strikes across the LoC into a ‘political asset’. He said, "Surgical strikes were conducted thrice during the Manmohan Singh government, as was done during the Modi government. Are you aware of it? (But) Modi actually reached into the Army’s domain and shaped surgical strikes into a political asset." The Congress chief alleged that the Modi government made surgical strikes public as the BJP was ‘fighting a losing election’ in UP. [...] Appreciating efforts of former PM Manmohan Singh, Rahul asserted that three surgical strikes were held during his tenure. "Do you know that like Mr Modi’s surgical strike, Manmohan Singh ji did that 3 times? When Army came to Mr Singh and said we need to retaliate against Pakistan for what they’ve done, they also said we wanted to be secret, for our own purposes," he said.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2018-12-02): UPA Did 3 Surgical Strikes But Didn’t Show Off: Rahul Gandhi [...] Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that the Indian Army had conducted three surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was in power, but those operations were kept under the wraps at the force’s behest.(PTI) Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asserted that the Indian Army had conducted three surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was in power, but those operations were kept under the wraps at the force’s behest.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2018-12-02): UPA conducted 3 surgical strikes but didn’t show off: Rahul Gandhi The Congress president alleged that the surgical strike was made public as the BJP was fighting elections in Uttar Pradesh [...] New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at AICC headquarters, in New Delhi, Friday, Nov 02, 2018. (PTI Photo/Kamal Singh)(PTI11_2_2018_000034B)
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2023-01-24): 'Armed forces need not show proof': Rahul Gandhi on surgical strikes comment row Surgical strikes: We trust our armed forces and they do their work exceptionally well, Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday after Digvijaya Singh said the Narendra Modi government was 'peddling lies'. [...] "Surgical strikes were carried out before 2014 by (Congress-led) UPA government. Congress has supported and will continue to support all military actions in national interest."
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2019-05-18): Reiterating former PM Manmohan Singh’s words, Gandhi said that six surgical strikes were conducted during the UPA era but the government did not speak about them because it was a strategic action. [...] "So, he has taken strategy and made it into a circus. Strategic thinking, strategic action are not circuses. Strategic actions are done after thinking and a whole bunch of strategic action is not spoken about ever. So, we did not speak about surgical strikes."Rahul Gandhi to The Quint ‘We did Six Surgical Strikes" [...] "So, he has taken strategy and made it into a circus. Strategic thinking, strategic action are not circuses. Strategic actions are done after thinking and a whole bunch of strategic action is not spoken about ever. So, we did not speak about surgical strikes."Rahul Gandhi ‘Complete Submission’ to China
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2019-05-02): "Multiple surgical strikes took place during our tenure as well. For us, military operations were meant for strategic deterrence and giving a befitting reply to anti-India forces than to be used for vote garnering exercises," Singh was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times. The statement comes amid the BJP’s poll narrative revolving around national security, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeatedly invoking the surgical strikes and the Balakot air strikes in his campaign. Other Congress leaders, including party chief Rahul Gandhi, have also said that multiple surgical strikes were conducted by the armed forces when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. But this is the first time that he himself has confirmed this.
Claim: Rahul Gandhi: “Surgical strikes and Air strikes happened during UPA government but we didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce”. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-03)
Evidence (2019-03-05): A post is being shared by many users on Facebook claiming Rahul Gandhi has commented that UPA government also conducted Surgical strikes and Air strikes but didn’t disclose to anyone, not even to Army and Airforce. Let’s try to analyze the claim made in the post [...] Rahul Gandhi said in a public interaction meeting during the Rajasthan Assembly Elections that the UPA government also conducted Surgical strikes but did not disclose the information to the public. But, he did not say that the UPA government conducted strikes not even disclosing it to Army and Airforce. Finally, Rahul Gandhi’s statement which was twisted by a parody account is being shared on Facebook as his statement and there isn’t any truth in these posts.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2023-05-04): There is no love jihad angle in this incident. Both the husband and wife are born Muslims. FIR details and the parents of the deceased confirmed the same. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-07-22): After the killing, authorities quickly imposed a round-the-clock curfew across Rajasthan, which with 69 million people has a population almost as big as that of Britain. They also suspended internet services in an effort to stem the spread of the videos, fearing they could further stoke tensions.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-05-06): A 25-year-old Hindu man was hacked to death in broad public view at a busy crossing in Hyderabad on Wednesday night by his Muslim wife’s brother and another person in a case of suspected honour killing, with the incident sending shockwaves after the gory murder, that was caught on camera, went viral. The incident happened on Wednesday night at Saroornagar when the victim, B Nagaraju, a Dalit was travelling on a motorbike with his wife and was confronted by his attackers — Syed Mobin Ahmed and Mohammed Masood Ahmed — who came on a scooter, stopped the couple on the road and attacked the man in full public view with an iron rod before stabbing him with a knife, killing him on the spot, police said. Both persons have been arrested. [...] The victim’s distraught wife told the media she knew her husband for the last 11 years and claimed five persons attacked him. The Hindu-Muslim couple were classmates in school and college and were in love for more than five years even as her family was against the relationship. They got married in January this year against the wishes of her family members, police said.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-07-01): The killing of a Hindu tailor by two Muslim men in Rajasthan, India has sparked chilling calls for revenge against the country’s already marginalized Muslim population.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-02-21): Her husband, Anwar Ali, was allegedly killed by a Hindu mob in March 2019 when he tried to prevent them from destroying an Islamic religious structure near his house in Sonbhadra district. [...] Police say he was killed in retaliation against his Muslim neighbour eloping with a Hindu woman days before. Inter-faith relationships have long been fraught in India, but in recent years, Hindu-Muslim couples have faced also the wrath of vigilantes who accuse Muslim men of luring Hindu woman to convert their faith.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2023-09-15): The 29-year-old has been oblivious to her own wellbeing and has stopped eating properly as she grieves the loss of her husband, Nurul Hassan, who was killed after a Hindu mob attacked a mosque in Pusesavali village in Maharashtra’s Satara district.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-05-05): Hyderabad news: A 25-year-old Hindu man was murdered in public by his Muslim brother-in-law in an 'honor killing' case. Announcing a breakthrough in the case within 24 hours, Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said Ashrin Sultana's brother Syed Mobin Ahmed and brother-in-law Mohammed Masood Ahmed have been arrested. [...] The incident happened on Wednesday night at Saroornagar when the victim, B Nagaraju, was travelling on a motorbike with his wife and was confronted by his attackers -- Syed Mobin Ahmed and Mohammed Masood Ahmed -- who came on a scooter, stopped the couple on the road and attacked the man in full public view with an iron rod before stabbing him with a knife, killing him on the spot, police said. [...] The Hindu-Muslim couple were classmates in school and college and were in love for more than five years even as her family was against the relationship. They got married in January this year against the wishes of her family members, police said.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-05-06): HYDERABAD: A 25-year-old Hindu man was brutally killed in broad public view here by his Muslim wife’s brother and another person in a case of suspected honour killing, with the incident sending shockwaves after the gory murder that was caught on camera went viral. [...] The Hindu-Muslim couple were classmates in school and college and were in love for more than five years even as her family was against the relationship. They got married in January this year against the wishes of her family, police said.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-06-29): Tensions were high Wednesday in the western Indian city of Udaipur, a day after police arrested two Muslim men accused of slitting a Hindu tailor's throat and posting a video of it on social media, in a brutal attack representing a dramatic escalation of communal violence in a country riven by deep religious polarization. The killing comes after months of rising tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and has raised fears it will spark increased violence. [...] In May, a Hindu man in the southern city of Hyderabad was stabbed to death in public by his Muslim wife's relatives. Last year, a Muslim man was beheaded by members of a vigilante group on orders of his girlfriend's Hindu family because they didn't approve of their interfaith marriage. In Rajasthan state in 2017, a Hindu man brutally killed a Muslim laborer and shared a video of the victim being hacked to death and then set on fire.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-06-29): Religious tensions are flaring in India following the killing of a Hindu man allegedly by two Muslim assailants as authorities attempt to stop video of the brutal attack from circulating online. [...] In one video, two men can be seen beginning to attack the victim. In another, two Muslim men appear to confess to the crime and claim to have "decapitated" the Hindu man. However, police in the state told CNN Wednesday the victim had deep cuts all over his body, including slashes on his neck, but that he had not been beheaded. [...] The killing has reignited the flames of an already volatile situation between India’s Hindu majority and its minority Muslim community, that make up about 14% of the country’s 1.3 billion population.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-06-30): NEW DELHI, India — Tensions were high Wednesday in the western Indian city of Udaipur, a day after police arrested two Muslim men accused of slitting a Hindu tailor’s throat and posting a video of it on social media, in a brutal attack representing a dramatic escalation of communal violence in a country riven by deep religious polarization. The killing comes after months of rising tensions between Hindus and Muslims, and has raised fears of increased violence.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-06-29): Two Muslim men have been arrested in India’s Udaipur city in the western state of Rajasthan for allegedly beheading a Hindu tailor over his support online for a former ruling party official whose remarks about Prophet Muhammad sparked global protests. [...] In 2017, a Hindu man in Rajasthan brutally killed a Muslim labourer in a religious attack and shared a video of the victim being hacked to death and then set on fire. [...] On social media, many depicted the killing as an attack on all Hindus, with thousands of tweets carrying hashtags such as #IslamicTerrorismInIndia.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2021-09-01): In recent months, several states have introduced laws to curb "love jihad" - an Islamophobic term fringe Hindu groups use to imply that Muslim men prey on Hindu women to convert them to Islam through marriage. The laws are being used to harass and jail Muslim men in interfaith relations with Hindu women. Last December, the plight of a pregnant Hindu woman, who was forcibly separated from her Muslim husband, made headlines when she suffered a miscarriage.
Claim: Visuals of a Muslim man confessing to killing his Hindu wife (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-05-04)
Evidence (2022-06-29): Hindu man killed by Muslim attackers as religious tensions boil in India [...] The killing comes after months of rising tensions between Hindus and Muslims, as well as a spate of attacks by Hindu nationalists on minority groups — especially Muslims — who have been targeted for their food, clothing style, interfaith marriages and other reasons. More recently, Muslim homes have also been demolished using bulldozers in some Indian states, in what critics call a growing pattern of "bulldozer justice" against the minority group. [...] In May, a Hindu man in the southern city of Hyderabad was stabbed to death in public by his Muslim wife’s relatives. Last year, a Muslim man was beheaded by members of a vigilante group on orders of his girlfriend’s Hindu family because they didn’t approve of their interfaith marriage. In Rajasthan state in 2017, a Hindu man brutally killed a Muslim laborer and shared a video of the victim being hacked to death and then set on fire.