In a debate moderated by TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, panelists -- Dr Sudhanshu Trivedi, National Spokesperson, BJP & Political Advisor to Rajnath Singh; Maroof Raza, Consulting Editor, Strategic Affairs; Maj Gen (Retd) G D Bakshi, Editor, Indian Military Review; Dr Ajoy Kumar, Spokesperson, Congress and Rahul Narwekar, Spokesperson & MLC, NCP -- discuss the issue -- saluting success a crime? Is Cong's jingoism charge valid?
Congress on Thursday (June 11) came down hard on Union Ministers for making "boastful and jingoistic" statements on the Army operation in Myanmar and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give them "mentoring and counselling". The Defence Minister has "foot-in-mouth" disease and is in the "habit" of making "irresponsible" statements, said party spokesman Anand Sharma who also faulted the "56-inch-chest" remark by another Union Minister. "There should be sobriety and maturity. Jingoism and boastful claims are not going to help the operations of India's special forces," he said.
Sharma, who has been a senior Minister during the UPA rule, also advised National Security Advisor to work and speak with restraint and said that his style of functioning raised serious questions of propriety. "I would request the Prime Minister to give them mentoring and counselling.... PM should restrain his ministers so there is no repeat," he said. Sharma said the Prime Minister should have drawn lesson from Nepal experience. "During the quake relief operations, there was a publicity and propaganda overkill which caused us embarrassment," he said.
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