We did not want any human casualties: BJP MP Ahluwalia on Balakote airstrike

BJP lawmaker SS Ahluwalia has claimed that the Balakote airstrike at Jaish terror camp was not aimed at causing casualties but to give a message to Pakistan.

The BJP MP from Darjeeling constituency claimed that neither the Prime Minister nor any party spokesperson has said that as many as 300 people were killed in the airstrike.

“I have read in the national as well as in international media. I have also heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first speech in Churu after the airstrike. He had not said that 300 were killed. Has any spokesperson of BJP said that? Has Amit Shah said that anywhere?” he said.

We did not want any human casualties: BJP MP Ahluwalia on Balakote airstrike

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Adding to it he said, “The reason of the air strike is to give a clear message that we can go near your house and destroy you. This message had to be conveyed that despite your security arrangements, we can still destroy you. We did not want any human casualties.”

Ahluwalia's statement came after the inauguration of West Bengal’s first digital village in Siliguri on Friday.  “As many as 130 government services will be provided through Common Service Centre and free wifi of speed upto 4 Mbps will be provided for a month, after that users can pay Rs 10 & download 1GB of data,” he said at the inaugural ceremony.

On being quizzed on the demand of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leaders to vote for the son of the soil, he said, “Son of the soil would mean born anywhere in the state – Kurseong or Kalimpong, Chopra or Phasidawa. I am a son of the soil and was born in Bengal’s Asansol, I too have a domicile certificate. People who are making such demands were born in Nepal.”