UPA govt should have actioned kinetic response following 26/11 Mumbai attacks: Congress leader Manish Tewari

Congress leader Manish Tewari has in his latest book criticised the UPA government for its response to the 2611 Mumbai terror strikes saying restraint is not a sign of strength and that India should have taken kinetic action following the attackIn the book 10 Flashpoints 20 years which is set to be released on December 2 the former union minister has looked back at the security situations that have impacted India in the last two decades Tewari is a member of the Group of 23 leaders who had written to Sonia Gandhi seeking organisational overhaul and elections for every post in the Congress partyHappy to announce that my Fourth Book will be in the market shortly 10 Flash Points 20 Years National Security Situations that Impacted India The book objectively delves into every salient National Security Challenge India has faced in the past two decades Tewari said in a tweet while announcing the launch of his bookHe has dissected the responses both in terms of success and failures and examined the tools and processes of Indian statecraft in terms of both diplomacy and intelligence For a state that has no compunctions in brutally slaughtering hundreds of innocent people restraint is not a sign of strength it is perceived as a symbol of weakness he said in his bookThere comes a time when actions must speak louder than words 2611 was one such time when it just should have been done It therefore is my considered opinion that India should have actioned a kinetic response in the days following Indias 911 he said The nation would observe the 13th anniversary of 2611 Mumbai terror attacks this weekCiting excerpts of the book the BJP alleged that the grand old partyled UPA government put the national security at stake by not responding strongly after the Mumbai terror attacks Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said this confirms that the UPA government was uselessTewari has also hit out at the Modi government alleging that the scrapping of the Mountain Strike Corps is the greatest disservice that this government did to Indias national security The former minister said in July 2018 the defence and finance ministers of the subsequent Modiled government shelved all the plans of raising the Mountain Strike Corps against China citing financial constraintsMounting pressure on the LAC leading to the Doklam crisis in 2017 could have been averted provided the mountain strike corps would have been raised trained resourced and efficaciously deployed he said Scrapping the Mountain Strike Corps is perhaps the greatest disservice that this government did to Indias national security Tewari saidHe also said while the triumphant Taliban claim that just as the fighting and fiercely independent people of Afghanistan had vanquished the Soviet Union a superpower in the penultimate decade of the 20th century it had similarly defeated the only remaining hyperpower the US in the second decade of the 21st century through guile cunning and military tacticsAlso Read NIA detains activist Khurram Parvez in terror funding case in SrinagarIt would have profound consequences on Pax Americana and the USs reliability qua its allies around the world he noted The Congress leader said the implication of such an assertion and the unfolding situation in Afghanistan is that it would give a huge fillip to all kinds of militant and terrorist organisations in West and South Asia from the lslamic StateDaesh and alQaeda to the LeT and JeM respectivelyBoth radicalism and extremism would be exacerbatedThis will have implications on the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the other northwestern border states also he notedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever