‘India wanted PoK back’: Tejashwi says PM Modi yielded to Trump; asks ‘why was ceasfire called’ | India News

NEW DELHI: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called out the UPA government for staying silent after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday fired salvos at PM Modi, accusing him of agreeing to a ceasefire with Pakistan following a “single tweet from US President Donald Trump”.Tejashwi claimed that the Prime Minister shattered public hopes by agreeing to a ceasefire with Pakistan after Operation Sindoor.“We would have been really happy, and we had hopes from our security forces, to get back PoK, but I don’t know why the PM agreed on a ceasefire. The ceasefire occurred after a single tweet from the US President,” Tejashwi said.“The PM is upset at this. The hopes we had from the PM have shattered,” he added.Earlier in the day, PM Modi said that Congress should clarify who prevented India’s military response after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.“A Congress leader, who has also been Union Home Minister, has said that a country prevented India’s military retaliation post-26/11 Mumbai terror attack in 2008. The party should clarify,” PM Modi said.“This weakness of Congress strengthened terrorists. The nation has the right to know who stopped India from going ahead with a military retaliation after the Mumbai terror attack,” he added.“For us, nothing is more important than the safety and security of our nation and its citizens,” Modi said, referring to Operation Sindoor launched after the Pahalgam terror attack.This comes days after former Union home minister P Chidambaram, in an interview, recounted that he was inclined towards retaliatory action against Pakistan after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks but was ultimately persuaded against it.Chidambaram said the decision-making process of the Manmohan Singh-led government was shaped by international diplomatic pressure, particularly from the United States.“It did cross my mind that we should do some act of retribution. I did discuss it with the Prime Minister and other people who mattered. The PM had discussed this matter when the attack was going on, I can surmise. And the conclusion was largely influenced by the MEA and the IFS that we should not physically react to the situation but employ diplomatic means,” he said.“The conclusion was reached amid pressure from the world that was descending upon Delhi to tell us not to start a war,” he added. Chidambaram specifically mentioned that then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had travelled to New Delhi to meet him and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging India not to retaliate militarily.