A day after the government officially released the names of the soldiers who died during Operation Sindoor, the Congress on Saturday (June 27, 2026) accused Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh of misleading Parliament by stating that no Indian soldier had died during the military operation.
The government’s disclosure had exposed a contradiction between the Defence Minister’s statement in Parliament and the official record, the party said, demanding that the Centre place the complete facts relating to Operation Sindoor before the House during the forthcoming monsoon session.
The Congress’s deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi said that during the parliamentary debate on Operation Sindoor, he had urged the Defence Minister to present “the complete truth” before the Parliament and the nation. “Instead, the House was unequivocally told that our soldiers had suffered no loss,” he said in a post on social media platform X.
A year later, the government itself had officially released the names of six personnel who had made “the supreme sacrifice” during the operation, he said.
“The government’s own admission exposes a stark contradiction. Parliament was misled on a matter of the highest national importance. The families of our martyrs deserve the truth. Our brave soldiers deserve to have their sacrifice acknowledged with honesty and dignity. Is this how the government chooses to honour those who gave their lives in service of the nation?” he said.
Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala also attacked the government, alleging that it had failed to speak the truth even on the issue of soldiers’ sacrifices.
“The age of a lie is short, the truth of martyrdom is indelible. Those who do not speak the truth even for martyrdom, what respect will they show to the martyrs! Those who shamelessly lie in the temple of democracy, who will believe them!” Mr. Surjewala said in a post on X.
Casualties were an inevitable possibility in military operations, senior Congress leader and Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari said, questioning why the government had sought to conceal the facts.
“In a kinetic action casualties do happen. Why obfuscate the facts and dissimulate, and that too to Parliament —the supreme legislative institution of the nation?” he said.
“If there are some other facts pertaining to Operation Sindoor, government should squarely put them on the table of Parliament during the ensuing monsoon session without demur,” Mr. Tewari said.
Published - June 27, 2026 08:58 pm IST
Source: The Hindu - India News
