People like Rahul Gandhi question Army, insult them: Anurag Thakur
Thakur said Gandhi should worry about his party as Army under PM Modi did Surgical Strike, Balakot Strike and gave a befitting reply in Doklam.
Thakur said Gandhi should worry about his party as Army under PM Modi did Surgical Strike, Balakot Strike and gave a befitting reply in Doklam.
He was addressing the graduates of 59th National Defence College (NDC) course (2019 batch) during their convocation ceremony in New Delhi.
At a ceremony in France on October 8, Singh formally took the delivery of the first of the 36 long-awaited French-made aircraft acquired by the Indian Air Force.
This comes days after Army Chief Bipin Rawat said that the JeM camp in Balakot, that was bombed by the IAF in February, has been reactivated and about 500 infiltrators were waiting to infiltrate into India.
The 87th Air Force Day was also marked by aerial displays of newly inducted Apache attack choppers and the heavy-lift twin-rotor transport Chinook helicopter besides other aircraft.
Speaking on the occasion of the 87th birth anniversary of the IAF, Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria referred to the Pulwama attack saying that it is a stark reminder of the persistent threat to defence installations.
Bhadauria further said that the Rafale fighter jets and S-400 Air Defence missile system will further bolster the capability of the Indian Air Force.
The IAF headquarters has ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the incident under an Air Commodore-ranked officer and at least four officers have been found guilty
The Army chief further said that Pakistan is carrying out ceasefire violations to push terrorists into the Indian territory, adding that the Army is alert and will ensure that maximum infiltration bids are foiled.
Pakistan had opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on July 16 removing the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use a majority of its airspace since the Balakot airstrikes in February.
